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The Nuclear Lion - John Jagger

The Nuclear Lion

What Every Citizen Should Know About Nuclear Power and Nuclear War

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
402 Seiten
1991 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-43771-7 (ISBN)
CHF 74,85 inkl. MwSt
. . . 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.

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.

Zusatzinfo 35 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 402 p. 35 illus.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturwissenschaft
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik
ISBN-10 0-306-43771-6 / 0306437716
ISBN-13 978-0-306-43771-7 / 9780306437717
Zustand Neuware
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