List of non-fiction books about nuclear issues

Ranger Uranium Mine complex in Australia
The expanding fireball from the "Badger" United States nuclear test
The decommissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant
President Jimmy Carter in Pennsylvania following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979
Stewart Brand wearing a shirt bearing the radioactive trefoil symbol with the caption "Rad."
Stewart Brand at a 2010 debate, "Does the world need nuclear energy?"[1]

This is a list of non-fiction books about nuclear issues, including uranium mining, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power.

List of books

Year Book
1945 Smyth Report
1946 Hiroshima
1947 Explaining the Atom
1949 The Bells of Nagasaki
1950 Survival Under Atomic Attack
1957 Our Friend the Atom
1958 Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
1960 On Thermonuclear War
1960 The Strategy of Conflict
1961 Fallout Protection
1961 The Day of the Bomb
1971 Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
1974 Biswasghatak
1975 Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy
1975 We Almost Lost Detroit
1976 The Nuclear Power Controversy
1976 Nuclear Power and the Environment
1979 Nuclear War Survival Skills
1980 Life After Doomsday
1980 Protect and Survive
1980 The People of Three Mile Island
1981 The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany
1982 Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security
1982 Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation
1982 Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset
1982 The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission
1982 The Fate of the Earth
1982 The Hundredth Monkey
1982 Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown
1984 Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
1984 The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War
1984 The Fourth Protocol
1988 U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History
1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1991 The International Politics of Nuclear Waste
1991 The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
1991 The Truth About Chernobyl
1992 Los Alamos Primer
1994 When Technology Fails
1997 Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
1997 Nuclear Politics in America
1998 Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
1998 Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero
1998 The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
1999 The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age
1999 Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
1999 The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
2001 Megawatts and Megatons
2001 The Algebra of Infinite Justice
2001 The Unfinished Twentieth Century
2004 Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
2004 Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
2004 The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism
2005 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2005 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2006 Britain, Australia and the Bomb
2006 Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom.
2006 Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
2006 Nuclear Power is Not the Answer
2006 The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
2006 The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation
2006 TORCH report
2007 Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
2007 Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System
2007 The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble
2007 Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
2007 Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up
2007 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 On Nuclear Terrorism
2007 Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
2007 The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
2008 Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
2009 Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
2009 Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
2009 In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
2009 Joseph Rotblat: A Man of Conscience in the Nuclear Age
2009 Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
2009 My Australian Story: Atomic Testing
2010 Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
2010 The Last Train From Hiroshima
2011 Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
2011 What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power
2012 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
2012 The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel
2012 Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
2013 Command and Control (book)
2013 Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns
2013 Plutopia
2013 World Nuclear Industry Status Report
2014 Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
2017 The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
2019 Nuclear War in the UK
2022 Nuclear Nuevo México[2]

Fiction

  • Red Jihad (2012)

See also

  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California
  • List of books about energy issues
  • List of books about renewable energy
  • List of nuclear holocaust fiction
  • List of films about nuclear issues
  • List of songs about nuclear war
  • List of crimes involving radioactive substances
  • List of environmental books
  • Nuclear weapons in popular culture
  • Rise and Kill First

References

  1. ^ "Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?". TED. June 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Nuclear Nuevo México". UAPress. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
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