Our Nuclear Future
by Edward Teller
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About this eBook
- Author
- Latter, Albert L.
- Title
- Our Nuclear Future: Facts, Dangers and Opportunities
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Nuclear weapons
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 66408
- Release Date
- September 28, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE ... FACTS DANGERS AND OPPORTUNITIES
- 2.Preface
- 3.Contents
- 4.List of Illustrations — OUR NUCLEAR FUTURE
- 5.CHAPTER I The Need to Know
- 6.CHAPTER II Atoms
- 7.CHAPTER III Nuclei
- 8.CHAPTER IV The Law of Radioactive Decay
- 9.CHAPTER V Breakup of the Nucleus
- 10.CHAPTER VI Reactions Between Nuclei
- 11.CHAPTER VII Fission and the Chain Reaction
- 12.CHAPTER VIII Action of Radiation on Matter
- 13.CHAPTER IX The Test
- 14.CHAPTER X The Radioactive Cloud
- 15.CHAPTER XI From the Soil to Man
- 16.CHAPTER XII Danger to the Individual
- 17.CHAPTER XIII Danger to the Race
- 18.CHAPTER XIV The Cobalt Bomb
- 19.CHAPTER XV What About Future Tests?
- 20.CHAPTER XVI Has Something Happened to the Weather?
- 21.CHAPTER XVII Safety of Nuclear Reactors
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII By-products of Nuclear Reactors
- 23.CHAPTER XIX The Nuclear Age
- 24.GLOSSARY
- 25.FOOTNOTES
- 26.Transcriber’s Notes
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