- Preface
- 1. Radioactive Hopes
- 2. Radioactive Fears
- 3. Radium: Elixir or Poison?
- 4. The Secret, the Master, and the Monster
- 5. The Destroyer of Worlds
- 6. The News from Hiroshima
- 7. National Defenses
- 8. Atoms for Peace
- 9. Good and Bad Atoms
- 10 The New Blasphemy
- 11. Death Dust
- 12. The Imagination of Survival
- 13. The Politics of Survival
- 14. Seeking Shelter
- 15. Fail/Safe
- 16. Reactor Promises and Poisons
- 17. The Debate Explodes
- 18. Energy Choices
- 19. Civilization or Liberation?
- 20. Watersheds
- 21. The Second Nuclear Age
- 22. Deconstructing Nuclear Weapons
- 23. Tyrants and Terrorists
- 24. The Modern Arcanum
- 25. Artistic Transmutations
- A Personal Note
- Nuclear History Timeline
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index


The Rise of Nuclear Fear
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Publication Date: 03/19/2012
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- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2012