The Cult of the Atom
1982 book by Daniel Ford
The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who used the Freedom of Information Act to access thousands of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) documents. The AEC was the predecessor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.[1][2][3]
The Cult of the Atom is a piece of political literature that discusses issues brought up by the nuclear disarmament movement.
See also
- List of books about nuclear issues
- Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown
References
- ^ Gerald H. Clarfield and William M. Wiecek (1984). Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States 1940-1980, Harper & Row, New York, p. 469.
- ^ Weinberg, Alvin M. (March 1983). "Safety is as safety is seen". Nature. 302 (5903): 89–90. Bibcode:1983Natur.302...89W. doi:10.1038/302089a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ Bolotin, Susan (1982-11-08). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
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- Abalone Alliance
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
- Clamshell Alliance
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- Corporate Accountability International
- Critical Mass Energy Project
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Mothers for Peace
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- Nevada Desert Experience
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Plowshares movement
- Ploughshares Fund
- Public Citizen
- Shad Alliance
- Sierra Club
- Three Mile Island Alert
- Women Strike for Peace
- Kings Bay Plowshares
- Daniel Berrigan
- William J. Bichsel
- Bruce G. Blair
- Larry Bogart
- Helen Caldicott
- Barry Commoner
- Norman Cousins
- Frances Crowe
- Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
- Paul M. Doty
- Bernard T. Feld
- Randall Forsberg
- John Gofman
- Paul Gunter
- John Hall
- Jackie Hudson
- Sam Lovejoy
- Amory Lovins
- Bernard Lown
- Arjun Makhijani
- Gregory Minor
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Ralph Nader
- Graham Nash
- Linus Pauling
- Eugene Rabinowitch
- Phil Radford
- Bonnie Raitt
- Carl Sagan
- Martin Sheen
- Karen Silkwood
- Thomas
- Louis Vitale
- Harvey Wasserman
- Victor Weisskopf
Main
protest
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protest
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- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
- Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
- The Cult of the Atom
- The Doomsday Machine (book)
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Killing Our Own
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
- Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear Politics in America
- We Almost Lost Detroit
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