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by Spencer R. Weart

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After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the threat of climate change has never aroused the same visceral dread or swift action. Spencer Weart dissects this paradox, demonstrating that a powerful web of images surrounding nuclear energy holds us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.

Building on his classic, Nuclear Fear, Weart follows nuclear imagery from its origins in the symbolism of medieval alchemy to its appearance in film and fiction. Long before nuclear fission was discovered, fantasies of the destroyed planet, the transforming ray, and the white city of the future took root in the popular imagination. At the turn of the twentieth century when limited facts about radioactivity became known, they produced a blurred picture upon which scientists and the public projected their hopes and fears. These fears were magnified during the Cold War, when mushroom clouds no longer needed to be imagined; they appeared on the evening news. Weart examines nuclear anxiety in sources as diverse as Alain Resnais's film Hiroshima Mon Amour, Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, and the television show The Simpsons.

Recognizing how much we remain in thrall to these setpieces of the imagination, Weart hopes, will help us resist manipulation from both sides of the nuclear debate.

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  • Title Rise of Nuclear Fear
  • Author Spencer R. Weart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Publication date 2012-03-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780674052338 / 0674052331
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.14 x 0.97 in (23.50 x 15.60 x 2.46 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Antinuclear movement - History, Nuclear engineering
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011035170
  • Dewey Decimal Code 621.48

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About the author

Spencer R. Weart is Director Emeritus of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics

Author's Home: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

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