MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01354nam a22002538a 4500
001 2011035170
003 DLC
005 20110819142056.0
008 110819s2012 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011035170
020 $a9780674052338 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTK9146$b.W384 2012
082 00 $a621.48$223
100 1 $aWeart, Spencer R.,$d1942-
245 14 $aThe rise of nuclear fear /$cSpencer R. Weart.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1203
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRadioactive hopes -- Radioactive fears -- Radium : elixir or poison? -- The secret, the master, and the monster -- The destroyer of worlds -- The news from Hiroshima -- National defenses -- Atoms for peace -- Good and bad atoms -- The new blasphemy -- Death dust -- The imagination of survival -- The politics of survival -- Seeking shelter -- Fail/safe -- Reactor promises and poisons -- The debate explodes -- Energy choices -- Civilization or liberation? -- Watersheds -- The second nuclear age -- Deconstructing nuclear weapons -- Tyrants and terrorists -- The modern arcanum -- Artistic transmutations.
650 0 $aNuclear engineering$vPopular works.
650 0 $aNuclear energy$xPsychological aspects$vPopular works.