History of the Nuclear Age

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,887 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety 4.27 avg rating — 14,177 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,438 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by: Kai Bird
4.31 avg rating — 55,183 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 62,916 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb 4.19 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima 4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element 3.82 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy 4.16 avg rating — 5,432 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings
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The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949 4.13 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner 4.21 avg rating — 3,121 ratings
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case 3.92 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters 4.13 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World 3.87 avg rating — 2,401 ratings
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster 3.55 avg rating — 648 ratings
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War 4.27 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating — 61,006 ratings
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Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident 3.96 avg rating — 915 ratings
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The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era 3.88 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die 3.90 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 4.10 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
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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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race 3.96 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb 3.98 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking 3.98 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. 3.91 avg rating — 835 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,376 ratings
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War 4.18 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science 4.03 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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The Bomb
The Bomb 4.28 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age 4.29 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States 4.15 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History 3.90 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists 4.29 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons 3.75 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth 3.93 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste
Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder 3.92 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship 3.95 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base 3.86 avg rating — 10,397 ratings
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Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident
Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats 4.06 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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Nuclear Fear: A History of Images
Nuclear Fear: A History of Images 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age 4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb 4.14 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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Atomic Bomb Cinema
Atomic Bomb Cinema 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs
The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima 4.27 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The New World, 1939-1946
The New World, 1939-1946 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project 4.18 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea 3.86 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal
Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal 4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons 4.14 avg rating — 298 ratings
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100 Suns
100 Suns 4.41 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Bomb: A New History
The Bomb: A New History 3.66 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Disturbing the Universe
Disturbing the Universe 4.19 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party 3.64 avg rating — 3,641 ratings
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Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War 4.07 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Black Rain
Black Rain 3.99 avg rating — 4,436 ratings
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Day One, Before Hiroshima and After
Day One, Before Hiroshima and After 4.06 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Fallout: Hedley Marston and the Atomic Bomb Tests in Australia
Fallout: Hedley Marston and the Atomic Bomb Tests in Australia 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age
Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age 3.85 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War 4.27 avg rating — 2,101 ratings
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex 4.02 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda 3.48 avg rating — 90 ratings
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In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller 3.90 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Clouds of Deceit: The Deadly Legacy of Britain's Bomb Tests
Clouds of Deceit: The Deadly Legacy of Britain's Bomb Tests 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb 4.24 avg rating — 5,907 ratings
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining 3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout 4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
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Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power 4.15 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests
The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos 4.16 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age 3.77 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons
Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons 3.67 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction 3.42 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Bomb: A Life
The Bomb: A Life 4.05 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima 4.43 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict 4.28 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West 4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Bomboozled: How the U.S. Government Misled Itself and Its People Into Believing They Could Survive A Nuclear Attack
Bomboozled: How the U.S. Government Misled Itself and Its People Into Believing They Could Survive A Nuclear Attack
by: Susan Roy
3.71 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation 4.24 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Fire Across the Desert: Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project 1946-1980
Fire Across the Desert: Woomera and the Anglo-Australian Joint Project 1946-1980 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Atoombommen voor Al-Qaeda: hoe Nederland en de CIA Pakistan aan de atoombom hielp
Atoombommen voor Al-Qaeda: hoe Nederland en de CIA Pakistan aan de atoombom hielp 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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After Fukushima: What We Now Know: History of Nuclear Power and Radiation
After Fukushima: What We Now Know: History of Nuclear Power and Radiation 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now 3.60 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Anatomy of the World: The Impact of the Atom on Australia and the World
Anatomy of the World: The Impact of the Atom on Australia and the World liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Almighty Lib/E: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
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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Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story 4.02 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Heroes of Telemark
Heroes of Telemark
by: ray-mears
4.30 avg rating — 244 ratings
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