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This is a '''list of books about nuclear issues'''. They are non-fiction books which relate to [[uranium mining]], [[nuclear weapons]] and/or [[nuclear power]].

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

== 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]]
*[[:Category:Songs about nuclear war and weapons|List of songs about nuclear war and weapons]]
*[[List of crimes involving radioactive substances]]
*[[List of environmental books]]
*[[Nuclear weapons in popular culture]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://alsos.wlu.edu/adv_rst.aspx?keyword=nuclear*books&results=10 ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053134/http://alsos.wlu.edu/adv_rst.aspx?keyword=nuclear*books&results=10 |date=4 March 2016 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120623104217/http://universityhonors.umd.edu/HONR269J/bibBomb.htm Bibliography: The Atomic Bomb]
*[http://www.nuclearreader.info Nuclear Reader]

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