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Nuclear Books
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,407 ratings — published 1986
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,497 ratings — published 2013
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,644 ratings — published 2019
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.37 — 45,639 ratings — published 2024
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,903 ratings — published 2014
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,265 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.31 — 58,760 ratings — published 2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,681 ratings — published 1997
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,541 ratings — published 2009
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,499 ratings — published 1959
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,028 ratings — published 1995
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,481 ratings — published 2018
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,498 ratings — published 1957
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,215 ratings — published 2017
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.54 — 664 ratings — published 2013
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,419 ratings — published 2013
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.96 — 849 ratings — published 2007
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 245 ratings — published 2021
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.30 — 75,881 ratings — published 1987
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,618 ratings — published 2022
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,758 ratings — published 2017
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.95 — 953 ratings — published 2003
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,013 ratings — published 2020
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 185,161 ratings — published 2016
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,076 ratings — published 2009
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,434 ratings — published 2009
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,073 ratings — published 1967
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.28 — 613 ratings — published 1999
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.13 — 290 ratings — published 1983
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,623 ratings — published 1991
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.97 — 457 ratings — published 1995
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.24 — 539 ratings — published 2016
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,621 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,120 ratings — published 2017
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,137 ratings — published 2015
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.84 — 215 ratings — published 2012
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.83 — 312 ratings — published 2007
The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,417 ratings — published 1985
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.12 — 697 ratings — published 2010
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,882 ratings — published 2020
The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,211 ratings — published 2018
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,163 ratings — published 2016
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,888 ratings — published 2013
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,609 ratings — published 2021
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.29 — 70 ratings — published 2014
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (The Making of the Nuclear Age Book 4)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.07 — 338 ratings — published 2010
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.07 — 215 ratings — published 1992
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.89 — 517 ratings — published 2014
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.02 — 459 ratings — published 2007
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,236 ratings — published 1959
“Is the music broke, Mommy?”
― Hell on Ice
― Hell on Ice
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
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