Learning to glow : a nuclear reader /

When told from the perspective of ordinary people, nuclear history takes on a much different tone from that of the tranquil voice of authority that always told us we had nothing to fear. These 24 essays testify to many of the unsuspected human and environmental costs of atomic science

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bradley, John, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2000
Tucson : c2000
Tucson [Ariz.] : c2000
Tucson : [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond despair
  • Baring the atom's mother heart / Marilou Awiakta
  • At the crossroads: In Hiroshima at the fiftieth anniversary / Edward A. Dougherty
  • The cenotaph / Kenneth Robbins
  • Beyond despair: An imaginal odyssey into the soul of Hiroshima / Randy Morris
  • Atomic holocaust, Nazi holocaust: some reflections / Richard H. Minear
  • From nuclear patriarchy to solar community / Mayumi Oda
  • Coyote learns to glow
  • The society of the living dead / Catherine Quigg
  • Voiceless victims / Jim Carrier
  • Downwinders all / Mary Dickson
  • The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams
  • Tragedy at the center of the universe / Valerie Kuletz
  • Coyote learns to glow / Richard Rawles
  • The Pentagon's radioactive bullet / Bill Mesler
  • Brighter than the brightest star / Karl Grossman
  • For us all / Kay Mack
  • In the belly of the beast
  • At play in the paradise of bombs / Scott Russell Sanders
  • White sands / Ray Gonzalez
  • Mother Witherup's top-secret cherry pie / Bill Witherup
  • A roller-coaster ride through the nuclear age / David Seaborg
  • Imagine a world without nuclear nightmares / Mary Laufer
  • Reciprocal paradise: Reflections on the atomic era and the Cold War / Phil Woods
  • Cold fear and the real Dr. Strangelove / Craig McGrath
  • All in the family / Sonya Huber
  • In the belly of the beast / Barbara Kingsolver