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This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely worried about nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen just as one answer to global warming. Few have truly come to conditions with the complexities of a concern which may determine the future of the earth. Nuclear weapons, it was once hoped, would bring wars to a detailed; instead, they spurred a massive arms competition that has recently expanded to include North Korea and Iran. Once seen as a source of unrestricted electricity, nuclear reactors breed contaminants and have been used as ranges for secret weapons programs from India and Pakistan to Iraq and Iran. The evolving account of nuclear power, as informed by industry insider Stephanie Cooke, reveals the progressive deepening of your understanding of the pros and cons of this controversial power source. Drawing on her behalf unprecedented gain access to, Cooke shows us how, over and over, the stewards of the nuclear get older - the more-is-better military services commanders and civilian nuclear boosters - have dropped in to the traps of their own hubris and wishful thinking as they tried to control the unmanageable. Their faults are on the verge to be repeated again, which is why this e book deserves especially close attention now.
