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THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare

THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare

THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare

THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare

by Pringle, Peter & Spigelman, James

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London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph, 1982 First Edition. 578pp. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Slight shelf and age wear especially to jacket. Paper has tanned with age especially around edges. Initial and date of previous owner on first endpaper on the top right hand corner. Otherwise no internal markings - clean text pages. Contents: Prologue; Part One: The Forties - Original Sin, The Act of Obedience, A Most Deadly Illusion, The Atomic Archipelago, The Poor Relation, The One-Eyed Kings; Part Two: The Fifties - The Fates and the Furies, The Power of Les X, A Separate World, The Admiral, The Perennial Fountain, What Are You Doing, The Uncertified Possibility, The First Ice Age, The Outcasts; Part Three: The Sixties - Like Butter in the Sun, Foolish Dreams, Transitory, Dangerous and Degrading, Listen World; Part Four: The Seventies - The Boom Years, A Shell of the Atom, A Tale of Two Dynasties, A Certain Event, The Buddha is Smiling, Pride and Prejudice, The Second Ice Age, In the Spirit of Paracelsus, We All Live in Pennsylvania Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index. The book "covers the full story of atomic energy policy as it has developed in every country that has gone nuclear. Here is the first full account of the massive Soviet effort to build the bomb, including realistic evaluation of the role of the atom spies; here is the truth about the Indian programme and how it brought that nation to the edge of bankruptcy; here are never-before-revealed facts about the Israeli bomb and the role of the French in making it; here is the megalomania of Philippine dictator Marcos and the corruption and callous disregard for plant safety of Westinghouse; here are French and British elected officials lied to by their nuclear establishments; here is the AEC deliberately diverting funds earmarked for reactor safety research and suppressing data proving there is no safe level of radiation. Using a worldwide network of sources, the authors trace with cool objectivity the tissue of interests, individuals and turning points that have brought us to our present folly. Sins of omission, acts of deliberate deception, errors of judgement born of hubris, decisions based on expediency: it is an eye-opening and ultimately devastating account." The authors - Peter Pringle is a Washington correspondent for the Observer; James Spigelman held several key posts in Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government.

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Title
THE NUCLEAR BARONS: The Inside Story of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare
Author
Pringle, Peter & Spigelman, James
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Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
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Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0718120612
ISBN 13
9780718120610
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
Date Published
1982
Keywords
Nuclear History Bomb
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