The nuclear lion : what every citizen should know about nuclear power and nuclear war
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The nuclear lion : what every citizen should know about nuclear power and nuclear war
Plenum Press, c1991
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-372) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
. . . human kind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. ELIOT, Four Quartets When I was a little child, I lived in an old and somewhat rickety house by the sea. When the winter wind blew, the house would shake and tremble, and cold drafts would whistle through cracks in the walls. You might have thought that lying in bed in a dark room on such cold, windy nights would have frightened me. But it had just the opposite effect: having known this en vironment since birth, I actually found the shaking of the house, the whistling of the wind, and the crashing of the sea to be comforting, and I was lulled to sleep by these familiar sounds. They signaled to me that all was right with the world and that the forces of nature were operating in the normal way. But I did have a problem. On the dimly lit landing of the staircase leading up to my bedroom, there was a large and dark picture of a male lion, sitting as such lions do with his massive paws in front of him and his head erect, turned slightly to the right, and staring straight out at you with yellow blazing eyes. I had great difficulty getting past that lion. Someone would have to hold my hand and take me up to bed, past the dreaded picture.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Chernobyl and Hiroshima.- I. Atoms and Life.- 1. Atoms: What the Universe Is Made Of.- 2. Molecules: How the Atoms Fit Together.- 3. Radiation: How the Atoms Interact.- II. Radiations and Life.- 4. Radiation Biology.- 5. Radioisotopes in Medicine and Industry.- III. The Power.- 6. Nuclear Creation.- 7. Nuclear Power Reactors.- 8. Nuclear Reactor Accidents.- 9. Nuclear Waste Disposal.- 10. Myth I: Nuclear Power Is Too Dangerous.- 11. The Power Problem.- IV. The Peril.- 12. Nuclear Weapons and Arsenals.- 13. Nuclear War: I. The Terrible Swift Sword.- 14. Nuclear War: II. The Slow Death.- 15. Myth II: You Can't Trust the Russians.- 16. Nuclear Confrontation.- 17. New Perspectives.- V. Living with Lions.- 18. Myth III: War Makes Jobs.- 19. Facts and Fallacies.- 20. Technology, War, and People.- Summary: No Nukes?.- Afterword: The Millennium.- Notes.- Appendixes.
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