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  • Uranium

    podle Anthony Burke ...
    Série série Resources
    Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many of the planet's most deadly threats, including nuclear devastation and radioactive waste. Its mining has caused bitter conflict ... Přečtěte si více

    295,49 Kč

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  • SuperFuel

    Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

    podle Richard Martin ...
    Série série MacSci
    A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold WarIn this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far ... Přečtěte si více

    295,89 Kč

  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

    A Primer on Radiation and Health

    The bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, brought radiation to international attention but the exact nature of what had been unleashed was still unclear to most. The 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant again made headlines with estimates of fatalities ranging from 4000 to almost a million deaths. By the time of the shocking 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant social media meant ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Nuclear Energy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Série série What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980s. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's ... Přečtěte si více

    214,79 Kč

  • The Seventh Decade

    The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

    podle Jonathan Schell ...
    Série série American Empire Project
    From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies.When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back ... Přečtěte si více

    214,89 Kč

  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    podle Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

    “There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Arming Mother Nature

    The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism

    When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature, Hamblin argues that military planning for World War III essentially created "catastrophic ... Přečtěte si více

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  • The Inquisition of Climate Science

    podle James Powell ...
    Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science—an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon ... Přečtěte si více

    390,59 Kč

  • Bomb Scare

    The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons

    podle Joseph Cirincione ...
    "A welcome antidote to the strange confluence of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opponents" by one of America's best known weapons experts (Christopher F. Chyba, Science).With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of nuclear proliferation and an optimistic vision of its future, providing a comprehensive survey of the wide range of critical ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Weapons in Space

    podle Karl Grossman ...
    Série série Open Media Series
    Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's space doctrine, its similarity with the original Stars Wars scheme of Ronald Reagan and Edward Teller, and the space-based lasers, ... Přečtěte si více

    111,09 Kč

  • In Mortal Hands

    A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age

    podle Stephanie Cooke ...
    This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen as a possible solution to global warming. Few have truly come to terms with the complexities of an issue which may determine the future of the planet. Nuclear weapons, it was once hoped, would bring wars to a close; instead, they ... Přečtěte si více

    279,69 Kč