List of books about nuclear issues



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


 * The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001)
 * American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005)
 * The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)
 * The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1981)
 * Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010)
 * The Bells of Nagasaki (1949)
 * Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958)
 * Britain, Australia and the Bomb (2006)
 * Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (1982)
 * 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)
 * The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984)
 * Command and Control (book) (2013)
 * Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (2009)
 * Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon (2006)
 * Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011)
 * Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 (1998)
 * The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission (1982)
 * The Day of the Bomb (1961)
 * The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (2017)
 * The Doomsday Machine: The High Price of Nuclear Energy, The World's Most Dangerous Fuel (2012)
 * Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)
 * Explaining the Atom (1947)
 * Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (2004)
 * Fallout Protection (1961)
 * The Fate of the Earth (1982)
 * The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2004)
 * The Fourth Protocol (1984)
 * 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)
 * The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now (1998)
 * Hiroshima (1946)
 * The Hundredth Monkey (1982)
 * In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
 * The International Politics of Nuclear Waste (1991)
 * Joseph Rotblat: A Man of Conscience in the Nuclear Age (2009)
 * Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982)
 * The Last Train From Hiroshima (2010)
 * The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007)
 * Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (1997)
 * Life After Doomsday (1980)
 * Los Alamos Primer (1992)
 * The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988)
 * Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999)
 * Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up (2007)
 * Megawatts and Megatons (2001)
 * My Australian Story: Atomic Testing (2009)
 * The Navajo People and Uranium Mining (2006)
 * Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975)
 * Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies (1984)
 * 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 Nuevo México (2022)
 * Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? (2007)
 * Nuclear Politics in America (1997)
 * Nuclear Power and the Environment (1976)
 * The Nuclear Power Controversy (1976)
 * Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (2006)
 * Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004)
 * Nuclear War in the UK (2019)
 * Nuclear War Survival Skills (1979)
 * Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero (1998)
 * Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset (1982)
 * On Nuclear Terrorism (2007)
 * On Thermonuclear War (1960)
 * Our Friend the Atom (1957)
 * The People of Three Mile Island (1980)
 * The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
 * Plutopia (2013)
 * Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (2007)
 * Protect and Survive (1980)
 * The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
 * Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)
 * Red Jihad (2012)
 * The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (1991)
 * The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007)
 * Smyth Report (1945)
 * The Strategy of Conflict (1960)
 * Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950)
 * Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown (1982)
 * TORCH report (2006)
 * Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012)
 * The Truth About Chernobyl (1991)
 * U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988)
 * The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001)
 * Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (2009)
 * Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005)
 * We Almost Lost Detroit (1975)
 * What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power (2011)
 * When Technology Fails (1994)
 * World Nuclear Industry Status Report