Nuclear Science Studies
1. 
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by:
Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating — 14,177 ratings 
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,378 ratings 4. 
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
by:
Kristen Iversen
4.06 avg rating — 4,497 ratings 
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating — 61,007 ratings
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Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
by:
James Mahaffey
4.15 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 8. 
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
by:
Richard Rashke
3.92 avg rating — 340 ratings 9. 
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
by:
H.W. Brands
4.18 avg rating — 2,962 ratings 11. 
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by:
James Mahaffey
4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings 
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
by:
Kate Brown
4.13 avg rating — 1,369 ratings 
15. 
Nuclear Power: Both Sides: The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology
by:
Michio Kaku
4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Deadly Deceit: Low-level Radiation, High-level Cover-up
by:
Jay M. Gould
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 19. 
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by:
Craig Nelson
3.88 avg rating — 513 ratings 
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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster 3.80 avg rating — 6,979 ratings
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The Whistleblower's Dilemma: Snowden, Silkwood and Their Quest for the Truth
by:
Richard Rashke
3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
by:
Tom Clynes
4.14 avg rating — 600 ratings 
29. 
After Fukushima: What We Now Know: History of Nuclear Power and Radiation
by:
Andrew Daniels
4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 
29. 
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
by:
Vincent Ialenti
3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings 29. 
Almighty Lib/E: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
by:
Dan Zak
3.86 avg rating — 212 ratings 
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Radiation exposures: the hidden story of the health hazards behind the official safety standards
by:
Les Dalton
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 34. 
Downwind of the Atomic State: Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society
by:
James C. Rice
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 
38. 
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
by:
Tom Zoellner
3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 40. 
No Conceivable Injury: The Story of Britain and Australia's Atomic Cover-Up
by:
Robert Milliken
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 41. 
Nuclear Renaissance: Technologies and Policies for the Future of Nuclear Power
by:
W.J. Nuttall
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
43. 
The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion & Survival
by:
Rodney Barker
4.07 avg rating — 672 ratings 
45.
Licensed To Kill?: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
by:
Joan B. Aron
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
45. 
Secret fallout: Low-level radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
48. 
Killing our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation
by:
Norman Solomon
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 48. 
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
by:
Markiyan Kamysh
3.28 avg rating — 924 ratings 
52. 
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by:
Steve Olson
4.13 avg rating — 757 ratings 54. 
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
by:
Jonathan Schell
3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings 54. 
Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal 4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by:
James Mahaffey
4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings 58. 
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, Volume 1181 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
60. 
Chernobyl: Catastrophe and Consequences (Springer Praxis Books)
by:
Jim T. Smith
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 60. 
Operation Crossroads - Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946
by:
William L. McGee
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 
63. 
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
by:
Gino Segrè
4.29 avg rating — 875 ratings 65. 
Poisoned Power: The Case Against Nuclear Power Before and After Three Mile Island
by:
John W. Gofman
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 65. 
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
by:
Paul Ham
4.35 avg rating — 1,015 ratings 
67. 
Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.49 avg rating — 304 ratings 
70. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings 72. 
Nuclear Energy Now: Why the Time Has Come for the World's Most Misunderstood Energy Source
by:
Alan M. Herbst
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 73. 
Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World 4.01 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
by:
James Mahaffey
3.92 avg rating — 1,083 ratings 75. 
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
by:
Richard Rashke
3.92 avg rating — 340 ratings 76. 
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Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear
by:
Wade Allison
4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings 78. 
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
by:
William McKeown
3.96 avg rating — 915 ratings 
80. 
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.11 avg rating — 1,482 ratings 
82. 
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
by:
Dan Carlin
3.89 avg rating — 13,341 ratings 84. 
The Worst Accident in the World: Chernobyl, the End of the Nuclear Dream
by:
The Observer
3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings 
86. 
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
by:
J. Samuel Walker
3.59 avg rating — 98 ratings 
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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
by:
Fred Pearce
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 91. 
The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
by:
J. Samuel Walker
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 91. 
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by:
Daniel Ellsberg
4.21 avg rating — 3,121 ratings 
93. 
The Nuclear Terrorist: His Financial Backers and Political Patrons in the US and Abroad
by:
Robert Gleason
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings
by:
COMMITTEE ETC
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
