Nuclear-related books in my collection

By Russell Hoffman, Concerned Citizen


Nuclear-related books in the personal collection of the webmaster.  Includes pro-, con-, government, etc..  This list does not include all government documents in my collection.  See end for list of video titles.  It is also missing a collection of books currently stored at a distant location.


For a list of nuclear reactors in the
United States:

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist.htm

 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  /  VIDEO TITLES

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A SPIRIT CAPABLE: THE STORY OF COMMONWEALTH EDISON, by John Hogan, The Mobius Press, Chicago, IL, 1986.

 

THE ABOLITION, by Jonathan Schell.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984.

THE ACCIDENT AT THREE MILE ISLAND: THE NEED FOR CHANGE: THE LEGACY OF TMI: REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION, John G. Kemeny, Chairman. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-25694.

THE ACCIDENTAL HAZARDS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
, by Richard E. Webb.
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 1976 (includes small Errata sheet).

ACHIEVING ECO-NOMIC SECURITY ON SPACESHIP EARTH USING FREE-MARKET-FORCES TO SAVE OUR LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
, by Jim Bell.  An ELSI Publication,
San Diego, CA, 1994, 1995.

AGAINST THE STATE OF NUCLEAR TERROR
, by Joel Kovel, South End Press,
Boston, MA, 1983.

ALL ABOUT THE ATOM
, by Ira M. Freeman.  Illustrated by George Wilde.  Random House,
New York, NY, 1955.

THE ANGRY GENIE:  ONE MAN'S WALK THROUGH THE NUCLEAR AGE
, by Dr. Karl Z. Morgan and Ken M. Peterson. 
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman Publishing Division, 1999, Printed in U.S.A.

 

ANIMALS IN ATOMIC RESEARCH., by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission / Division of Technical Information, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, Edward J. Brunenkant, Director, Division of Technical Information. (From Appendix I, we learn that, as of September 1st, 1966, a "grand total" of 6,412,146 animals had been used in "Programs of the Division of Biology and Medecine, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission". This included one muscrat and one opossum, but not any of the ducks which were used, which were noted as being "Many millions, too numerous to count." As of that point, 115 primates had been used, and 8,100 pigs of various strains (called "swine" in the pamphlet).) Oak Ridge, TN, August, 1967. Printed in the U.S.A.


THE ANTI-NUCLEAR HANDBOOK
, by Stephen Croall & Kaianders.  A Pantheon Documentary Comic Book, Pantheon Books,
New York, NY, 1978.

AT ANY COST: JACK WELCH, GENERAL ELECTRIC, AND THE PURSUIT OF PROFIT
, by Thomas F. O'Boyle. Alfred E. Knopf, Inc.,
New York, NY, 1998. (First edition.)

THE ATOM FROM A TO Z
, by K. Gladkov.  Translated by Michael Zimmerman. Revised from the 1967 edition. MIR Publishers,
Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1971.

ATOMIC AUDIT: THE COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS SINCE 1940, Stephen I. Schwartz, Editor.  The Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C., 1998

ATOMIC ENERGY: BOY SCOUTS OF
AMERICA MERIT BADGE SERIES (no author listed).  Boy Scouts of America, Irving, TX, 1998 printing of the 1983 edition.

THE ATOMIC NUCLEUS
, by M.Korsunsky, translated from the Russian by G. Yankovsky.  Dover Publication, New York, NY, 1958, 1963 (slightly altered publication).

ATOMS, ENERGY, AND MACHINES
, by Jack McCormick, The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.  Illustrated by Helmut Wimmer, American Museum-Hayden Planetarium. Published by Creative Educational Society, Mankato, MN, 1957.

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BASIC RADIATION BIOLOGY, by Donald J. Pizzarello and Richard L. Witcofski. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, PA, 1967.

 

BETTER A SHIELD THAN A SWORD: PERSPECTIVES ON DEFENSE AND TECHNOLOGY, by Dr. Edward Teller.  The Free Press division of Macmillan, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.

 

BLAMING TECHNOLOGY: THE IRRATIONAL SEARCH FOR SCAPEGOATS, by Samuel C. Florman. (Chapter Six is titled, "Nuclear Angst".) St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1981.


BOMBS IN THE BACKYARD: ATOMIC TESTING AND AMERICAN POLITICS
, by A. Costandina Titus.  University of Nevada Pres, Reno and Las Vegas, NV, 1986.

BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
, by Robert Jungk.  (Cover quote by Bertrand Russell: "One of the most interesting books I have ever read.  It is more exciting than any novel and, at the same time, it is packed with information which is both new and valuable.".)  Translated by James Cleugh.  A Harvest/HBJ Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1956, 1958.

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THE CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR INITIATIVE: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUES
, contributors: John H. Barton, Thomas J. Connolly, Michael J. Boskin, Richard J. Gilbert, J. Martin Brown, Charles J. Meyers, Edited by W. C. Reynolds.  Stanford University Institute for Energy Studies, Stanford, CA, April, 1976.

CHERNOBYL: A DECADE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH CHERNOBYL SASAKAWA MEDICAL COOPERATION SYMPOSIUM, KIEV, UKRAINE, OCTOBER 14-15, 1996, edited by Shunichi Yamashita, Yoshisada Shibata.  Excerpta Medica International Congress Series 1156, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1997.

THE
CHERNOBYL SYNDROME...AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT, by Dean Ing.  Baen Books, New York, 1988.

CHERNOBYL: THE FORBIDDEN TRUTH
, by Alla Yaroshinskaya, forward by Dr. John W. Gofman, translated by Michele Kahn and Julia Sallabank.  Jon Carpenter / Oxford, England, 1994 (Originally published in 1988 in Russian).

CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL: RAISING HOPE FROM THE ASHES, by Michell Carter and Michael J. Christensen.  Introduction by Olga Korbut.  Augsburg Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1993.

 

CITIZEN SCIENTIST, by Frank von Hipple. (Quote on cover: "From the environment to dissent, a leading scientist talks about the future of the planet.") The American Institute of Physics, Masters of Modern Physics, A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1991.


COMMENTS ON NUCLEAR POWER
, by A. Stanley Thompson, Eugene, OR, 1997. (Second Edition, January 1, 1998.)  Printed in U.S.A..  (This document is also available online at www.rathouse.org/radiation/CoNP/index.html )

CONTROLLING THE ATOM: THE BEGINNINGS OF NUCLEAR REGULATION 1946-1962
, by George T. Mazuzan & J. Samuel Walker.  (Both authors are listed as historians at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.)  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA (no publication date can be found).

COUNSELS OF WAR
:  The Revealing Story of the Experts and Advisers -- Scientists, Academics, Think-Tank Strategists -- Who Have Influenced and Helped Determine American Nuclear Arms Policy From Hiroshima to "Star Wars", Expanded Edition, by Gregg Herken.  Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, 1987.

COUNTDOWN TO A NUCLEAR MORATORIUM
, Edited by Richard Munson.  Environmental Action Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1976, 1978

COVER UP: WHAT YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER
, by Karl Grossman.  The Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, NY, 1982.

CRITICAL MASS: 1945 - 1995: FIFTY YEARS OF NUCLEAR ARMS: A BLACK & WHITE COMIC STRIP COLLECTION, by Garret Izumi.  Shortwave Productions, Fremont, CA, 1995.

CRITICAL MASS: VOICES FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE
, Preface by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Michio Kaku, Howard Zinn, Lorraine Rekmans, Edited by Greg Ruggiero and Stuart Sahulka, Introduction by Thomas Harrison & Joanne Landy, with a message from the Mayor of Hiroshima, Takashi Hiraoka. (Over title: "Our ultimate goal should be the demilitarization of the entire planet".)  A joint project of Open Media and The Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Westfield, New Jersey, 1996.

CRITICAL MASSES: OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR POWER IN CALIFORNIA, 1958-1978, by Thomas Raymond Wellock.  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1998.

CRITICAL PATH, by R. Buckminster Fuller.

CULT OF THE ATOM: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission, by Daniel Ford. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982.

THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY, by John McPhee.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1973, 1974, 1977.

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DAY ONE: BEFORE HIROSHIMA AND AFTER, by Peter Wyden. (Cover quote by John Hersey: "Here, quite simply, is what every literate person on earth should know about the start of the atomic age.")  Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY, 1984.

DEADLY DECEIT: LOW-LEVEL RADIATION, HIGH-LEVEL COVER-UP, by Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A. Goldman, with Kate Millpointer.  Four Walls Eight Windows Press, New York, NY, April, 1990 (first edition).

DEAR MARGARET: LETTERS FROM OAK RIDGE TO MARGARET MEAD, by Thelma Present.  East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, TN, 1985.

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: AN AGENCY THAT CANNOT BE REINVENTED, by Irwin M. Stelzer with Robert Patton.  American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Studies in Policy Reform, Washington, D. C., 1996.

A DESPERATE PASSION: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Dr. Helen Broinowski Caldicott.  W. W. Norton and Company, New York, NY, London, England, 1996 (signed by the author).

DIET FOR THE ATOMIC AGE, revised edition, by Sara Shannon.  Instant Improvement, Inc., 1987, 1993, Printed in U.S.A. (signed by the author).

DOE/EIS-0250D-S: SUPPLEMENT TO THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada.  U. S. Department of Energy.  Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, May, 2001. (Also the Draft itself, and the Yucca Mountain Science and Engineering Report -- Technical Information Supporting Site Recommendation Consideration.)


THE DORSET DISASTER, by Alexander Sidar III, illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. The Stonesong Press, a division of Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, NY, 1980.

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ECO-CATASTROPHE, by the Editors of Ramparts. (Includes a chapter titled, "Catch-24,400, or "Plutonium is my favorite Element" by Roger Rappaport.) Canfield Press Division of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1970.

 

ECOCIDE IN THE USSR: HEATH AND NATURE UNDER SIEGE, by Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr., forward by Lester Brown. (Contains a number of sections on Chernobyl.) Basic Books Division of Harper-Collins, Publishers, New York, NY, 1992.

 

THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: AFP 136-1-3, revised edition, prepared by the United Stated Department of Defence.  Published by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. Government Printing Office, April, 1962.

THE ELECTRIC WAR: THE FIGHT OVER NUCLEAR POWER, by Sheldon Novick. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1976.

ENERGY: BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MERIT BADGE SERIES (no author listed).  Boy Scouts of America, Irving, TX, 1998 printing of the 1978 edition.

ENERGY AND CONFLICT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD TELLER, by Stanley A. Blumberg and Gwinn Owens.  Putnam Press, New York, NY, 1976.

 

ENERGY & SECURITY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZING WORLD, Edited by Raju G. C. Thomas & Bennett Ramberg. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1990.

 

ENERGY EARTH AND EVERYONE: A GLOBAL ENERGY STRATEGY FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, by Medard Gabel with the World Game Institute, with a foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller and an Afterword by Stewart Brand, Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, CA, 1975. (First Edition.)


ENERGY FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH: ("In which a story is told about energy from its origins 15,000,000,000 years ago to its present adolescence -- turbulent, hopeful, beset by problems and in need of help"), by Dr. Edward Teller. W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1979 (signed by the author).

ENERGY FUTURE: REPORT OF THE ENERGY PROJECT AT THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Edited by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin.  Ballantine Vintage Special Edition Non-Fiction, New York, NY, 1979, 1980.

ENERGY / WAR: BREAKING THE NUCLEAR LINK
, by Amory B. & L. Hunter Lovins.  Friends of the Earth, San Francisco, CA, 1980.

ENERGY WAR: REPORTS FROM THE FRONT
, by Harvey Wasserman.  Lawrence Hill & Co. in association with Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT, 1979.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF LONG-LIVED RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
, Proceedings of an International Workshop organised by the Nuclear Energy Agency in co-operation with the Environmental Directorate.  Paris, France, September 1-2, 1994, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Documents, 1995.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WAR, SCOPE 28 (SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT), VOLUME 1: PHYSICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS
, second edition, by A. B. Pittock, T. P. Ackerman, P. J. Crutzen, M. C. MacCracken, C. S. Shapiro, and R. P. Turco.  John Wiley & Sons,  1985, 1989.  Printed in Great Britain.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR WAR, SCOPE 28 (SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT), VOLUME 2: ECOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL EFFECTS
, second edition, by M. A. Harwell and T. C. Hutchinson.  John Wiley & Sons,  1985, 1989.  Printed in Great Britain.

EVERYONE'S TRASH PROBLEM: NUCLEAR WASTES
, by Margaret O. Hyde and Bruce G. Hyde.  McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1979.

EXPLAINING THE ATOM
, by Selig Hecht.  (Additional text on front cover: "A remarkable book which actually makes the atom and its energy comprehensible to the intelligent layman, even though he has no scientific background." Among the quotes on the back cover: "A fascinating popular book . . .that can be understood be every attentive reader." -- Albert Einstein.)  The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1947, revised and enlarged 1954, 1955.

EXPOSURE: VICTIMS OF RADIATION SPEAK OUT: The Chugoku Newspaper.  Translated by Kirsten McIvor, forward by Robert J. Lifton. Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York, London, 1992.

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FAIL-SAFE, by Eugene Burdick, co-author of The Ugly American, and Harvey Wheeler.  (Quotes on the back cover include, "Both a thriller and a nightmare...rushes ahead with cold-sweat intensity... the reader will be thoroughly shaken when he finished it." -- Washington Post-Times Herald.)  Dell Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1962.

THE FAIL-SAFE SOCIETY:  COMMUNITY DEFIANCE AND THE END OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM, by Charles Piller.  Basic Books div. of HarperCollins, Publishers, 1991.  Printed in U.S.A.

FALLOUT: AN AMERICAN NUCLEAR TRAGEDY, by Philip L. Fradkin. (Quote on cover: "...provides important lessons that we ignore at our own peril." -- Washington Post.) University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 1989 (second printing).

THE FATE OF THE EARTH, by Jonathan Schell.  (Quote on cover: "It may be one of the most important works of recent years... there still may be hope to save our civilization." -- Walter Cronkite.  Many other quotes are included inside and on the back cover.).  Avon Books, Hearst Corporation, New York, NY, 1982.

FIGHTING RADIATION AND CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS WITH FOOD, HERBS, & VITAMINS, DOCUMENTED NATURAL REMEDIES THAT BOOST YOUR IMMUNITY AND DETOXIFY
, by Steven R. Schechter, N. D.. Introduction by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph. D.. Vitality, Ink, Encinitas, CA, 1988, 1990, 1997

FINAL WARNING: THE LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL ("An eyewitness account / A message of Hope"), by Dr. Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Warner Books, New York, NY, 1988.

FINAL WARNING: THE LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL ("An eyewitness account / A message of Hope"), by Dr. Robert Peter Gale and Thomas Hauser. Warner Books, New York, NY, 1988 (Cover states: "Advance Reading Copy -- Not For sale").

FROM DETERRENCE TO DEFENSE:  THE INSIDE STORY OF STRATEGIC POLICY
, by Michael Charlton.  (Additional text on cover: "Candid Interviews with the Architects of American Nuclear Policy.")  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.

FROM
HIROSHIMA TO THE MOON: CHRONICLES OF LIFE IN THE ATOMIC AGE, by Daniel Lang.  Copyright 1945-1959, Dell paperback edition copyright 1961, New York, NY.

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GAO / NSIAD-98-1: NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF CONVENTIONALLY AND NUCLEAR-POWERED CARRIERS, United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters, National Security and International Affairs Division, Washington, D.C., August, 1998.

A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS OF USING ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 1940-1945, by H. D. Smyth, Chairman of the Department of Physics of Princeton University, Consultant to the Manhattan District U. S. Corps of Engineers.  Written at the request of Major General L. R. Groves, United States Army.  U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.. Publication authorized as of August, 1945 (price: 40 cents).

THE GIFT OF TIME: THE CASE FOR ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, by Jonathan Schell.  Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY, 1998.  (First edition.)

THE GOLD CREW, by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. Warner Books, New York, NY, 1980 (fiction)

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H-BOMB OVER AMERICA: A NOVEL OF THE FIVE MOST HARROWING DAYS AND NIGHTS EVER FACED BY ANY NATION, by Jeff Sutton.  Ace Books, New York, NY, 1967. (Fiction paperback.)

HANS BETHE: PROPHET OF ENERGY, by Jeremy Bernstein. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York, NY, 1980.


HAVE FEET, SPEAK TRUTH, by Kevin Shay. (Inside cover quotes include: “Inspirational.  Saying thank you is never enough, but thank you.” – Premkumar, cofounder, Friends of All, world peace walker, Ahmedabad, India.)  Shay Publications, Dallas, TX, 1993. (A gift from the author.)

HEALTH EFFECTS OF LOW-LEVEL RADIATION, Volumes 1 & 2, by the Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives and the Health and Scientific Research Subcommittee of the Labor and Human Resources Committee and the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, April 19, 1979, Serial Nos. 96-41 and 96-42.  U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1979.

THE HEIRS OF BABYLON, by Glen Cook.  (Text above title: "After the bombs had stopped, there was still the war.")  Signet Science Fiction. New American Library, Times-MIrror, New York, NY, 1972.  (First printing, paperback fictional novel.)

 

HIGH TECH HOLOCAUST, by James Belini. (Chapter 3, "Tomorrow Always Comes", is about nuclear radiation.) Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1986.

 

HIROSHIMA: The story of six human beings who survived the explosion of the atom bomb over Hiroshima -- this is the complete text of the brilliant report to which "The New Yorker" devoted its entire issue of August 31st, 1946, by John Hersey. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1946.

HOTSPOTS: THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, by Sue Rabbitt Roff. Cassell, London, England, New York, NY, 1995.

HOW TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS OBSOLETE, by Robert Jastrow. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, Copyright, 1983, 1984, 1985 (first edition).

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IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET: A PLAN TO HEAL THE EARTH, by Helen Caldicott, M. D..  W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 1992.

IMPROVING PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, by the Committee o Assess the Policies and Practices of the Department of Energy to Design, Manage, and Procure Environmental Restoration, Waste Management, and Other Construction Projects, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.  National Academy Press, Washington, D. C., 1999.


INDEX ON CENSORSHIP #1 (THE MAGAZINE FOR FREE SPEECH, VOLUME 25, NO. 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1996, ISSUE #168): ONCE AND FUTURE SHOCK: SECRET CHERNOBYLS: THE FAILURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Editor & Chief Executive: Ursula Owen, Writers & Scholars International, Ltd., London, England.


IN SEARCH OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE: MOVING BEYOND BLAME, by Bruce Piasecki & Peter Asmus.  Foreword by Jean-Michel Cousteau.  Introduction by Congresswoman Claudine Schneider.  Afterword by the Honorable Robert K. Dawson.  Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY, 1990

IN
TIME OF EMERGENCY: A CITIZEN'S HANDBOOK ON NUCLEAR ATTACK AND NATURAL DISASTERS, Department of Defense.  Office of Civil Defense, March, 1968.

THE INVISIBLE NUCLEAR WAR:  THE EFFECTS OF LOW-LEVEL RADIATION, THE MASSIVE GOVERNMENT COVER-UP, AND THE CONTINUING BATTLE WAGED BY THE NUCLEAR POWERS AGAINST ALL LIFE ON EARTH, by Carol Brouillet, Leslie J. Freeman and Dave Ratcliffe.  Major excerpts courtesy of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Dr. John Gofman, Dr. Jay Gould, Norman Solomon and Dr. Ernest Sternglass.  (an unpublished text; photocopied by the primary author.)

AN IRREVERENT ILLUSTRATED VIEW OF NUCLEAR POWER, by John W. Gofman, (also known as "IRREVY").  Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, San Francisco, CA, 1979.

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LEVEL 7, by Mordecai Roshwald. (Additional cover text: "A horrifying, prophetic document of the future -- the diary of a man living 4000 feet underground in a society hell-bent on atomic self-destruction.")  Signet Books, New York, NY, 1959.

THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF ATOMIC WAR, by Marc Ian Barasch.  (Additional text on cover: "The Last Word -- And the Last Laugh -- On the War to End Them All."  On the back: "Straight from Official U. S. Government sources -- Everything you always wanted to know about Armageddon, but were afraid to ask (or your government forgot to tell you)." )  Illustrations by Henrik Drescher.  Dell Publishing Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1983.

LIVING DOWNSTREAM: AN ECOLOGIST LOOKS AT CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT, by Sandra Steingraber. (Front cover quote by Alan Lightman: "At once intimate and public, inspirational and frightening, essential reading for our time".)  Perseus Books, Reading, MA, 1997 (contains sections on radioactivity in our environment).

LIVING WITH THE BOMB: CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT ENEMIES?, by Dorothy Rowe.  Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, England, 1985.

LOS ALAMOS EXPERIENCE, by Phyllis K. Fisher, Japan Publications, Tokyo, New York, Printed in U.S.A., 1985 (first edition).

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THE MAKING OF AN INSPECTOR: AN ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL CODE SHOP INSPECTOR, by Laurence Kelly, Vantage Press, New York, NY, 1977 (first edition, signed by the author's daughter).

THE MAKING OF A SOVIET SCIENTIST: MY ADVENTURES IN NUCLEAR FUSION AND SPACE FROM STALIN TO STAR WARS, by Roald Z. Sagdeev, former director of the Soviet Space Research Institute.  Foreword by Carl Sagan.  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994.

THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO HELL (special feature in Reader's Digest).  Large-type edition, May, 1991.

 

MEGAWATTS AND MEGATONS: A TURNING POINT IN THE NUCLEAR AGE?, by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2001.


MELTDOWN: THE SECRET PAPERS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION:  THREE MILE ISLAND, CHERNOBYL... WHERE NEXT?, by Daniel Ford (the revised and updated edition of The Cult of the Atom).  A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, NY, 1982, 1984, 1986.

THE MENACE OF ATOMIC ENERGY, by Ralph Nader and John Abbotts.  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1977.

MERRY-GO-SORRY: A MEMOIR OF JOY AND SADNESS; A STROKE SURVIVOR'S STORY, by Richard G. Cuddihy (member of the NASA Safety Review Panel for the Galileo Space Mission).  Creative Designs, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2000.

METAL OF DISHONOR: DEPLETED URANIUM: HOW THE PENTAGON RADIATES SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS WITH DU WEAPONS, Selections compiled and edited by the Depleted Uranium Education Project, Including selections by Rosalie Bertell, Helen Caldicott, Ramsey Clark, Jay M. Gould, Michio Kaku, Manuel Pino, Anna Rondon.  International Action Center, New York City, 1997.

MISSILE ENVY:  THE ARMS RACE AND NUCLEAR WINTER, 1986 revised edition, by Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1984, 1986.

MOTHER COUNTRY: BRITAIN, THE WELFARE STATE AND NUCLEAR POLLUTION, by Marilynne Robinson (quote on back by John Nichols (clip): "It is as bloodcurdling as Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, as thought-provoking and prophetic as the best works of people like Barry Commoner and Loren Eiseley").  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1989 (this is the best book I've ever read -- rdh).

MR. ADAM, by Pat Frank. (Full title: "Would you like to be the only man in the world who could be a father?  Mr. Adam was that man!  What happened to him after an atom bomb explosion made every other living male sterile is an extremely funny story.")  Pocket Books, New York, NY, 1946, 1947, 1948. (Paperback novel.)

MULTIPLE EXPOSURES: CHRONICLES OF THE RADIATION AGE, by Catherine Caufield.  Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, Great Britain, 1989

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NAKED TO THE BONE: MEDICAL IMAGING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

 

NASA: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION: FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE CASSINI MISSION, Office of Space Science, Solar System Exploration Division, Washington, D. C., June, 1995.

NASA POCKET STATISTICS, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 033-000-01150, Superintendent of Documents, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995 edition.

THE NEW NUCLEAR DEBATE, by Robert A. Gessert and J. Bryan Hehir.  CRIA (Council on Religion and International Affairs) Special Studies #215, New York, NY, 1976.

NO CLEAR REASON: NUCLEAR POWER POLITICS, edited by the Radical Science Collective.  Free Association Books, London, England, 1984.

NO NUKES: EVERYONE'S GUIDE TO NUCLEAR POWER, by Anna Gyorgy & Friends (Joseph Bowring, Nancy Folbre, Tom Harris, Howard Kohn, Peter Lichtner, Michael Lucas, Sam Lovejoy, Don Michak, Peter Natti, Steve Turner and Harvey Wasserman, with graphic artists Bonnie Acker, Peg Averill, Lionel Delevingne, Candace Kaihlanen, Susanna Natti, and Mike Prendergast, reviewers included Sr. Rosalie Bertell, Larry Bogart, Ken Bossong, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Dr. Barry Commoner, David Holzman, Charles Komanoff, and Richard Morgan). South End Press, Boston, MA, 1979 (first edition).

NO PLACE TO HIDE: WHAT THE ATOMIC BOMB CAN DO TO SHIPS, OR WATER, OR LAND, AND THEREBY TO HUMAN BEINGS, IS TOLD WITH CLEAR IMPLICATIONS FOR ALL OF US BY A BRILLIANT YOUNG DOCTOR WHOSE JOB IT WAS TO WATCH FOR RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION DURING AND AFTER THE BIKINI TESTS, by David Bradley.  An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1948.

NOT IN MY BACK YARD: THE HANDBOOK, by Jane Anne Morris. (Dedication: To the Inhabitants of the Next Century ... Who will surely have lots of question for the survivors of this one.").  Silvercat Publications, San Diego, CA, 1994.

NUCLEAR CULTURE: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST ATOMIC COMPLEX, by Paul Loeb (back cover quote by Studs Terkel: "Paul Loeb's portrait of a nuclear weapons and power community is as brilliant as it is disturbing.  The dangers of banality that threaten our sanity and existence have rarely been so vividly offered").  Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. New York, NY, 1982.

NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: ALTERNATIVE NUCLEAR REGIMES, by David W. Tarr.  Longman Publishing Group, White Plains, NY, 1991.

NUCLEAR ENERGY: ITS PHYSICS AND ITS SOCIAL CHALLENGE, by David Rittenhouse Inglis, University of Massachusetts.  Addison-Wesley Series in Physics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, 1973

THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THE 90s, by Bernard L. Cohen. (Quotes on back cover from Hans A. Bethe, Ph. D., Dixy Lee Ray, Edward Teller, Ph. D., Rosalyn S. Yalow, Ph. D., Frederick Seitz, Ph. D., and Alvin M. Weinberg, Ph. D.)  Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1990, 1992.  (The author of this book as also written attacks of this writers' comments -- rdh ).

 

NORMAL ACCIDENTS: LIVING WITH HIGH-RISK TECHNOLOGIES, by Charles Perrow. ("With a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem.") (A number of chapters are about nuclear issues, including the first ("Normal Accident at Three Mile Island") and the second ("Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs -- But Will Soon".) Princeton University Press, Princiton, NY, 1999.


NUCLEAR FEAR: A HISTORY OF IMAGES, by Spencer R. Weart. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, London, England, 1988.

THE NUCLEAR FIX: A GUIDE TO NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES IN THE THIRD WORLD, by Thijs de la Court, Deborah Pick & Daniel Nordquist.  Forewords by Amory & Hunter Lovins and Frank Barnaby.  World Information Service on Energy (WISE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982.

NUCLEAR MADNESS: WHAT YOU CAN DO: With a new chapter on Three Mile Island, by Helen Caldicott (Additional title on cover: "The Choice Is Yours.  A Safe Future.  Or No Future At All".)  Bantam Books, Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1978, 1980 (paperback edition).

NUCLEAR MADNESS: WHAT YOU CAN DO: Revised Edition, by Helen Caldicott.  W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1978, 1994.

NUCLEAR POWER: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK, by Harry Henderson.  ABC-CLIO’s Contemporary World Issues Series, Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Oxford, England, 2000.

NUCLEAR POWER: BOTH SIDES, Edited by Michio Kaku and Jennifer Trainer.  (Additional text on cover: "The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology.")  W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1982.

THE NUCLEAR POWER DECEPTION: U.S. NUCLEAR MYTHOLOGY FROM ELECTRICITY "TOO CHEAP TO METER" TO "INHERENTLY SAFE" REACTORS, by Arjun Makhijani and Scott Saleska. A Report of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. (Quote on back: "The authors base their analysis on a sound grasp of the technology and a sophisticated understanding of the subterranean military, economical, political, and technical issues that lead to the failure of the first nuclear power era. Makhinani and Saleska successfully demystify the technology with lucid and accurate explanations." -- Professor Lawrence Lidsky, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) The Apex Press, New York, NY, 1999.

NUCLEAR POWER ISSUES AND CHOICES:  REPORT OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY POLICY STUDY GROUP, Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., Chairman.  Sponsored by the Ford Foundation.  Administered by the MITRE Corporation.  Ballinger Publishing Company, Boston, MA, 1977.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS WEAPONS FOR THE ENEMY: AN UNRECOGNIZED MILITARY PERIL, by Bennett Ramberg, University of California Press, Studies in International and Strategic Affairs, William Potter, Editor, Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA  (“Introduction to the Paperback Edition” Copyright 1984 by the Regents of the University of California).  D.C. Heath and Co., 1980, 1984.

NUCLEAR POWER: THE UNVIABLE OPTION, revised and updated, by John J. Berger.  (Cover photo is of a nuclear reactor at Gulf General Atomic, San Diego, CA. Quote on cover is by Senator Mike Gravel: "The need for energy often seems more apparent than the nuclear threat -- and when confronted with the question of nuclear power, most people are still likely to say, 'well, why not?'  This book tells why not.").  Dell Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1977. (Paperback edition.)

NUCLEAR QUALITY SYSTEMS: AUDITOR TRAINING HANDBOOK, 2nd edition, prepared by ASQC Energy Division.  Quality Press, Milwaukee, WI, January, 1986.

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