Author: United States Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Author: Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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Author: Daniel F. Ford
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671253011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Anti-nuke expose based on the secret files of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. It tells the inside story of the most ambitious, expensive, and risky venture ever undertaken by the federal government; the effort to create a commercial nuclear power industry. Meticulously documented report that probes the internal workings of a powerful government agency as never before. With the sober precision of a legal brief, it tells a harrowing story with urgent implications, for six dozen nuclear power stations, the relics of the A.E.C.'s impetuous nuclear program, are still operating today all around the United States.

Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: United States. Dept. of State. Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher:
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Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1886

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Author: Francis George Gosling
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788178806
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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A history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during WWII. Begins with the scientific developments of the pre-war years. Details the role of the U.S. government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. Concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Chapters: the Einstein letter; physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan district in peacetime. Illustrated.

Author: Arjun Makhijani
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This book provides critical analysis and historical evidence to refute the claims of the nuclear power industry that nuclear power can alleviate the build-up of greenhouse gases and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. It also reveals the hazards of further proliferation of nuclear weapons from the growing quantities of plutonium generated by existing nuclear power plants throughout the world. Prepared under the auspices of a scientifically respected institute, "The Nuclear Power Deception" exposes the flagrant misrepresentation of nuclear power as "to cheap to meter" and environmentally benign and safe by government and industry officials in the 1940s and 1950s when they had ample evidence to the contrary. Instead they suppressed that evidence, much of which is presented in this book. Essential background reading for students, teachers, peace and environmental activists, and others concerned about the threat nuclear power continues to pose for the future of humankind.

Author: Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520329368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.