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Nuclear Books
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,926 ratings — published 1986
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,852 ratings — published 2013
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.36 — 68,388 ratings — published 2019
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.36 — 52,610 ratings — published 2024
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,957 ratings — published 2014
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,779 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,186 ratings — published 2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,382 ratings — published 1997
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,640 ratings — published 2009
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,100 ratings — published 1995
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,117 ratings — published 1959
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,879 ratings — published 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,313 ratings — published 2017
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,858 ratings — published 1957
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.53 — 698 ratings — published 2013
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.96 — 861 ratings — published
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,465 ratings — published 2013
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.15 — 258 ratings — published 2021
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.30 — 77,651 ratings — published 1987
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,726 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 19 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,886 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 — 1,011 ratings — published 2003
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,913 ratings — published 2016
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,025 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,106 ratings — published 2009
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,458 ratings — published 2009
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 16 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.12 — 301 ratings — published 1983
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,747 ratings — published 2012
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,114 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 — 630 ratings — published 1999
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,411 ratings — published 1991
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.96 — 461 ratings — published 1995
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.25 — 558 ratings — published 2016
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.13 — 712 ratings — published 2010
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,150 ratings — published 2017
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,190 ratings — published 2015
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.83 — 219 ratings — published 2012
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.84 — 317 ratings — published 2007
The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,884 ratings — published 1985
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,705 ratings — published 2021
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 — 2,967 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 4.15 — 3,286 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 — 7,306 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 — 32,311 ratings — published 2013
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 11 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.08 — 344 ratings — published 2010
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.08 — 222 ratings — published 1992
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 — 73 ratings — published 2014
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 — 525 ratings — published 2014
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.12 — 213 ratings — published 1981
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear)
avg rating 4.02 — 465 ratings — published 2007
“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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“There are many stories of atomic bomb veterans never being compensated for developing radiation diseases.”
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