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Way back when I was in college, someone gave me a book that they thought I should read. "You've been working with plutonium, and you have an interest in nuclear weapons. You really ought to read this book." The book was The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. He was awarded the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for that book, and it is well deserved. It's my belief that anyone who wants to truly understand the American legacy of the first two nuclear bombs, and the consequences of their use, should read that book, as well as Rhodes two subsequent books on nuclear weapons: Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, and Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.
Since I've been writing quite a bit about current-day nuclear weapons issues, I thought it would be good to step back and take a look at the big picture again. What better way to do that than to talk to Richard Rhodes, nuclear weapons historian and journalist extraordinaire?
A Primer In The Art of Deception
Depleted uranium is a fascinating topic of study. Turn over any facet of the subject and what scurries out from underneath into the light of day are lies and subterfuge, distortions of truth and scientific fraud. To attain a panoramic vision of the guile that impregnates the subject of depleted uranium, one needs to recognize that, by its very nature, everything about DU can be nothing other than duplicitous. Disingenuousness is an inherent property of DU, as intrinsic to it as its density or specific activity. This is not because of what DU is or what it does, but because of what it points to.
A PRIMER IN THE ART OF DECEPTION: A New Book on Depleted Uranium
I am writing to announce that a new book, which my father authored, has just been published on the subject of depleted uranium. It's title is "A Primer in the Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science".
It is a science book, written for the layperson, detailing how science has been falsified to serve the political interests of covering up the health effects of internal contamination by radionuclides from nuclear weapon testing, commercial nuclear power plants and DU weapons. I forward to you a review of the work as it has been igniting a significant interest in the news world and I feel you may have interest to report on it as well. It is a rude awakening, and I ask you personally if you will help spread awareness of this shocking volume.
Truthdig - Reports - A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of Daniel Ellsberg’s personal memoir of the nuclear era, “The American Doomsday Machine.” The online book will recount highlights of his six years of research and consulting for the Departments of Defense and State and the White House on issues of nuclear command and control, nuclear war planning and nuclear crises. It further draws on 34 subsequent years of research and activism largely on nuclear policy, which followed the intervening 11 years of his preoccupation with the Vietnam War. Subsequent installments also will appear on Truthdig. The author is a senior fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
One day in the spring of 1961, soon after my 30th birthday, I was shown how our world would end. Not the Earth, not—so far as I knew then—all humanity or life, but the destruction of most cities and people in the Northern Hemisphere.
The pure horror of Hiroshima | The Japan Times Online
In 1946, just after the first anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima, "The New Yorker" magazine's Aug. 31 issue published the complete text of John Hersey's portrait of the atom bomb and its effects on the Japanese city.
At the end of the war, in 1945, Hersey was in Japan writing about the reconstruction of the devastated country when he happened across an account written by a Jesuit priest who had survived the Hiroshima destruction. It was he who introduced the reporter to other survivors.
From these, Hersey chose six individuals: two doctors, a minister, a widowed seamstress, a young woman who worked in a factory, and the priest himself. These became the principal characters in an account that melded nonfiction reportage with the stylistic devices of the novel, all expressed through the plainest of styles.
Japanese artist to publish picture book on nuclear elimination_English_Xinhua
A Japanese artist and a Hiroshima citizens group plan to publish a picture book in late July to explain in an easy-to-understand manner a protocol proposed by an international group of mayors calling for nuclear elimination, local media reported.
Seitaro Kuroda, a 70-year-old artist, said he proposed publishing such a book that can be read easily by children after perusing the protocol and thinking that it contained good elements but was "rigid with too many Chinese characters," Kyodo News reported.
The book will include anti-nuclear peace messages from students in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two Japanese cities on which the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs during World War II.
The citizens group will self-publish the 64-page book, printing about 5,000 copies to be sold for 500 yen each.
Getting the Nuclear Story Straight: What a Reporter Needs
Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. Yucca Mountain. When faced with covering the complex and frequently disputed issues of the nuclear age, a reporter knows there is nothing simple about preparing an accurate, balanced, objective, and responsible story about the benefits and risks of radiation and radioactivity.
Writers and editors (not to mention libaries, activists, government regulators, and the nuclear industry itself) now have a guide to help them report on these issues: The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy, and Waste Management by Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. Lowrie, and Henry J. Mayer recently published by Vanderbilt University Press).
An essential reference, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of twenty-four of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including health effects, nuclear medicine, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, and global warming. Each “brief” is based on interviews with named scientists, engineers, or administrators in a nuclear specialty, and each has been reviewed by a team of independent experts.
Hanford News: 'Nuclear Wastelands' recognized for honor
A Washington State University Press book by former Hanford regulator Max S. Power has been chosen one of the "Best of the Best from the University Presses" by the American Library Association.
America's Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup, looks at the legacy of waste left at Hanford and other nuclear sites from decades of nuclear weapons production.
The book also covers the current institutional and political environment as it affects waste cleanup and the critical role of public involvement in making decisions about cleanup.
Las Vegas Weekly : - Local scientist tries to revive conversation on nukes
About a thousand feet below the desert at the Nevada Test site are some two kilometers of tunnels, labs, plutonium and scientists. Often among them is the president of National Security Technologies, Stephen Younger.
“I feel perfectly safe there,” says Younger, a Las Vegan since taking over the subcontractor NST in 2006. “The Test Site is pristine.” Although there have been no nuclear tests since the 1992 Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban, a lot still goes on at the Test Site, and a lot goes on in the mind of Younger, who is on a mission to educate people about nuclear weapons and nuclear politics.
SA Current - NEWS+FEATURES: Year in Review: Nuclear options
City Council gets: Carbon Free and Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
Stockings filled with coal come by the Wyoming trainload to feed the furnaces powering CPS Energy’s plants. But impending federal regulation of
carbon emissions is causing utilities nationwide to wrestle with alternatives. CPS’s position has been that natural-gas prices are too volatile. Solar’s still too small. But does that imply nuclear is just right?
San Antonio has been locked in stiff debate over that question this year. Local environmental and energy activists scored a key victory when they got language supporting the proposed doubling of the South Texas (Nuclear)Project stripped from CPS’s May rate hike.
Atoms to the Rescue - WSJ.com
During his campaign, Barack Obama lamented our over-reliance on fossil fuels and declared confidently that "the possibilities of renewable energy are limitless." He then called for American investment in "alternative sources of energy like wind power, and solar power, and advanced biofuels." To that list -- or maybe instead of it -- William Tucker would add "nuclear power."
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In "Terrestrial Energy," Mr. Tucker argues that nuclear power is the best option realistically available to us to reduce our national dependence on foreign oil and address the nettlesome matter of "greenhouse" gas emissions. About the other alternatives he is skeptical, believing that they will deliver too little energy at too high a cost. Mr. Tucker, a veteran journalist, has been writing about energy and the environment for some 30 years and knows whereof he speaks.
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A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness by NHK TV "Tokaimura Criticality Accident" Crew - Hardcover - Random House
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Japan's worst nuclear radiation accident took place at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, on 30 September 1999. The direct cause of the accident was cited as the depositing of a uranyl nitrate solution--containing about 16.6 kg of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass--into a precipitation tank. Three workers were exposed to extreme doses of radiation.
Hiroshi Ouchi, one of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells.
Technology as Freedom
Introduction Did Electrical Modernization Cause a Social Revolution in the American Home in the 1920s?
Chapter 1 The Limits of Private Electrical Modernization, 1919–1929
Chapter 2 The Reform Tradition Rates and the Failure of Private Electrical Modernization
Chapter 3 Homes or Industry? The Modernization Debate in the 1920s
Chapter 4 The New Deal in Electrical Modernization
Chapter 5 The New Deal Saves the Home, 1933–1949
Chapter 6 Political Paths to Electrical Modernization
Chapter 7 The Culmination of the New Deal in Electrical Modernization, 1945–1960
Karl Grossman: The Most Lucrative Incentive for Nuclear Power in the History of the United States
The just-published Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town is a book about a community, tragedy and governmental malfeasance. Written by Kelly McMasters, who teaches writing at Columbia University and grew up in Shirley, it has broad significance.
It’s the story of how Walter Shirley, a Brooklynite who trained at the Camp Upton in Suffolk County during World War I later built a community named for him south of the Army camp and how, after World War II, the federal government turned Camp Upton into Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
knoxnews.com | David Michaels' book and DOE's sick workers
As I've said before on this forum and perhaps elsewhere, I'm a fan of David Michaels -- particularly because of his work as an asst. secretary at DOE during the Clinton administration. I've seen a bunch of folks serve as political appointees at the Dept. of Energy over the past 25-plus years. David Michaels was one of the best, and he made a difference during his three years (I think that's right) at DOE.
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