This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to

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The Algebra of Infinite Justice ''The Algebra of Infinite Justice'' (2001) is a collection of essays written by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy. The book discusses a wide range of issues including political euphoria in India over its successful nuclear bomb tests, the effect ...

'' (2001) *'' American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer'' (2005) *'' The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age'' (1999) *'' The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany'' (1981) *'' Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda'' (2010) *''

The Bells of Nagasaki is a 1949 book by Takashi Nagai. It vividly describes his experiences as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It was translated into English by William Johnston. The title refers to the bells of Urakami Cathedral, of which Nagai writes: ...

'' (1949) *'' Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists'' (1958) *'' Britain, Australia and the Bomb'' (2006) *'' Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security'' (1982) *'' Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System'' (2007) *'' Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free'' (2007) *'' Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment'' (2009) *'' Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom.'' (2006) *'' The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War'' (1984) *'' Command and Control (book) (2013)'' *'' Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement'' (2009) *'' Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon'' (2006) *''

Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power ''Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy'' is a 2011 book by Benjamin K. Sovacool, published by World Scientific. Sovacool’s book addresses the current status of the global nuclear power industry, i ...

'' (2011) *'' Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978'' (1998) *'' The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission'' (1982) *''

The Day of the Bomb ''The Day of the Bomb'' (in German ''Sadako Will Leben'', meaning ''Sadako Wants to Live'') is a non-fiction book written by the Austrian author Karl Bruckner in 1961. The story is about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshim ...

'' (1961) *'' The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner'' (2017) *'' The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel'' (2012) *'' Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'' (1971) *'' Explaining the Atom'' (1947) *'' Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy'' (2004) *''

Fallout Protection ''Fallout Protection: What To Know And Do About Nuclear Attack'' was an official United States federal government booklet released in December 1961 by the United States Department of Defense and the Office of Civil Defense. The first page of the b ...

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The Fate of the Earth ''The Fate of the Earth'' is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. Its description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". T ...

'' (1982) *'' The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism'' (2004) *'' The Fourth Protocol'' (1984) *'' Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns'' (2013) *'' Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats'' (2012) *'' The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now'' (1998) *''

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

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The Hundredth Monkey The hundredth monkey effect is a hypothetical phenomenon in which a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowle ...

'' (1982) *'' In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age'' (2009) *'' The International Politics of Nuclear Waste'' (1991) *'' Joseph Rotblat: A Man of Conscience in the Nuclear Age'' (2009) *'' Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation'' (1982) *'' The Last Train From Hiroshima'' (2010) *'' The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble'' (2007) *'' Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant'' (1997) *'' Life After Doomsday'' (1980) *''

Los Alamos Primer ''The Los Alamos Primer'' was a printed version of the first five lectures on the principles of nuclear weapons given to new arrivals at the top-secret Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project. They wer ...

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb'' is a contemporary history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the National Book ...

'' (1988) *'' Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West'' (1999) *'' Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up'' (2007) *''

Megawatts and Megatons ''Megawatts and Megatons'' is a 2001 book by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak. The book is said to be a good primer on nuclear power and also a detailed discussion of nuclear weapons and potential paths for weapons reduction. The book pr ...

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My Australian Story ''My Australian Story'' is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic Australia which was inspired by ''Dear America''. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an import ...

: Atomic Testing'' (2009) *''

The Navajo People and Uranium Mining ''The Navajo People and Uranium Mining'' (2006) is a non-fiction book edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis; it uses oral histories to tell the stories of Navajo Nation families and miners in the uranium mining industry ...

'' (2006) *'' Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy'' (1975) *'' Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies'' (1984) *'' Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System'' (2008) *'' Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought'' (2007) *'' Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future?'' (2007) *'' Nuclear Politics in America'' (1997) *''

Nuclear Power and the Environment ''Nuclear Power and the Environment'', sometimes simply called the Flowers Report, was released in September 1976 and is the sixth report of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, chaired by Sir Brian Flowers. The report was dedicate ...

'' (1976) *'' The Nuclear Power Controversy'' (1976) *'' Nuclear Power is Not the Answer'' (2006) *'' Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe'' (2004) *'' Nuclear War in the UK'' (2019) *''

Nuclear War Survival Skills ''Nuclear War Survival Skills'' or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual. It contains information gleaned from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Cold War, as well as from Kearny's extensive jungle liv ...

'' (1979) *'' Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero'' (1998) *'' Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset'' (1982) *''

On Nuclear Terrorism In his 2007 book ''On Nuclear Terrorism'', author Michael A. Levi surveys the issue of nuclear terrorism and explores the decisions a terrorist leader might take in pursuing a nuclear plot. Levi points out the many obstacles that such a terroris ...

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On Thermonuclear War ''On Thermonuclear War'' is a book by Herman Kahn, a military strategist at the RAND Corporation, although it was written only a year before he left RAND to form the Hudson Institute. It is a controversial treatise on the nature and theory of war ...

'' (1960) *'' Our Friend the Atom'' (1957) *'' The People of Three Mile Island'' (1980) *''

The Plutonium Files ''The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War'' is a 1999 book by Eileen Welsome. It is a history of United States government-engineered radiation experiments on unwitting Americans, based on the Pulitzer Prize– ...

: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War'' (1999) *'' Plutopia'' (2013) *'' Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy'' (2007) *''

Protect and Survive ''Protect and Survive'' was a public information campaign on civil defence. Produced by the British government between 1974 and 1980, it intended to advise the public on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack. The campaign compris ...

'' (1980) *'' The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation'' (2006) *'' Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option'' (2007) *'' Red Jihad'' (2012) *'' The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy'' (1991) *'' The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger'' (2007) *''

Smyth Report The Smyth Report (officially ''Atomic Energy for Military Purposes'') is the common name of an administrative history written by American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop atomic bombs du ...

'' (1945) *'' The Strategy of Conflict'' (1960) *''

Survival Under Atomic Attack ''Survival Under Atomic Attack'' was the title of an official United States government booklet released by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office. Released at t ...

'' (1950) *'' Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown'' (1982) *''

TORCH report The TORCH report (The Other Report on Chernobyl) was a health impacts report requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized ...

'' (2006) *'' Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb'' (2012) *''

The Truth About Chernobyl ''The Truth About Chernobyl'' is a 1991 book by Grigori Medvedev. Medvedev served as deputy chief engineer at the No. 1 reactor unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant while the plant was under construction. At the time of the Chernobyl disas ...

'' (1991) *'' U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History'' (1988) *'' The Unfinished Twentieth Century'' (2001) *'' Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age'' (2009) *'' Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster'' (2005) *''

We Almost Lost Detroit ''We Almost Lost Detroit'', a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It took four years for the reactor to be r ...

'' (1975) *'' What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power'' (2011) *''

When Technology Fails ''When Technology Fails'', edited by Neil Schlager, is a collection of 103 case studies about significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the 20th century. It was published in 1994 by Gale Research, Inc. It was one of the top ...

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World Nuclear Industry Status Report ''The World Nuclear Industry Status Report'' is a yearly report on the nuclear power industry. It is produced by Mycle Schneider, an anti-nuclear activist and a founding member of WISE-Paris, which he directed from 1983 to 2003. 2019 Report The ...

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