List of books about nuclear issues

The expanding fireball from the "Badger" United States nuclear test.

The decommissioned Trojan Nuclear power plant.

President Jimmy Carter in Pennsylvania following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979

Stewart Brand at a 2010 debate, "Does the world need nuclear energy?"

Ranger Uranium Mine complex in Australia

This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are recent non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.

• Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
• Britain, Australia and the Bomb (2006)
• Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System (2007)
• Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free (2007)
• Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (2009)
• Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom. (2006)
• Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon (2006)
• Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011)
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (2004)
• Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns (2013)
• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012)
• In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
• Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (2013)
• Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up (2007)
• Megawatts and Megatons (2001)
• My Australian Story: Atomic Testing (2009)
• Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006)
• Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (2008)
• Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought (2007)
• Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? (2007)
• Nuclear Power is not the Answer
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004)
• On Nuclear Terrorism (2007)
• Plutopia (2013)
• Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (2007)
• Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)
• The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel (2012)
• The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2004)
• The Last Train From Hiroshima (2010)
• The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007)
• The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
• The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001)
• Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004)
• TORCH report (2006)
• Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012)
• Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age. ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4 (2009)
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005)
• What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power (2011)
• World Nuclear Industry Status Report

Related pages

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• List of environmental books

Other websites

• ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Bibliography: The Atomic Bomb Archived 2012-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Nuclear Reader Archived 2021-03-10 at the Wayback Machine