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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
by Todd Tucker (Goodreads Author)
by Todd Tucker (Goodreads Author)
Josh Liller's review
bookshelves: american-history, mcls-nf-book-club
Dec 05, 11
bookshelves: american-history, mcls-nf-book-club
Read from November 28 to December 02, 2011
Fun fast read about the history of atomic energy in the US military, with particular the Idaho Falls SL-1 reactor explosion in 1961 (which I'd never heard of before) and "Father Of The Nuclear Navy" Admiral Hyman Rickover.
At less than 300 pages this is certainly introductory reading only, but informative and enjoyable. The author does seem a bit of a Rickover apologist, but since he's an ex-Navy nuke that is to be expected.
It's a little surprising some of the careless behavior toward nuclear energy in the past and the amount of time and money the Air Force sank into trying to create a nuclear-powered airplane (an idea which I think should be rejected out of hand as stupid).
At less than 300 pages this is certainly introductory reading only, but informative and enjoyable. The author does seem a bit of a Rickover apologist, but since he's an ex-Navy nuke that is to be expected.
It's a little surprising some of the careless behavior toward nuclear energy in the past and the amount of time and money the Air Force sank into trying to create a nuclear-powered airplane (an idea which I think should be rejected out of hand as stupid).
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