List of books about nuclear issues

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The expanding fireball from the "Badger" United States nuclear test

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The decommissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant

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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?"

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Ranger Uranium Mine complex in Australia

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: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
• The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)
• The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1981)
• 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: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System (2007)
• 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)
• 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 Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission (1982)
• The Day of the Bomb (1961)
• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (2017)
• The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel (2012)
• Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)
• 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)
• Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns (2013)
• 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 (1946)
• The Hundredth Monkey (1982)
• In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
• The International Politics of Nuclear Waste (1991)
• Joseph Rotblat: A Man of Conscience in the Nuclear Age (2009)
• Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982)
• The Last Train From Hiroshima (2010)
• 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)
• 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: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984)
• Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (2008)
• Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought (2007)
• Nuclear Nuevo México (2022)
• 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)
• The Nuclear Power Controversy (1976)
• 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)
• The People of Three Mile Island (1980)
• The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
• Plutopia (2013)
• Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (2007)
• Protect and Survive (1980)
• The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
• Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)
• Red Jihad (2012)
• 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)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988)
• The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001)
• 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)
• 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
• List of songs about nuclear war and weapons
• List of crimes involving radioactive substances
• List of environmental books
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture

External links

• ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Template:Webarchive
• Bibliography: The Atomic Bomb
• Nuclear Reader