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Atomic Complex: A Worldwide Political History of Nuclear Energy (Softcover)

Atomic Complex: A Worldwide Political History of Nuclear Energy (Softcover)

Barry Goldschmidt

Item ID: 690008|ISBN: 978-0-89448-551-0

1982|1st Edition|478 pages

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Atomic Complex is a worldwide political history of the development of nuclear energy from its military use in the 1940s to its peaceful uses today. But, equally important, the book is also the personal memoir of Bertrand Goldschmidt, a man who was in the forefront of the effort to harness energy from the atom and who remains active today in his attempts to educate the public about the benefits of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Atomic Complex tells the story of the development of nuclear explosives and nuclear energy from the viewpoint of a scientist turned statesman.

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