Button Up: Secrecy and Deception in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

This book calls into question building additional nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants given the attendant health problems, mainly childhood leukemia, thyroid cancer, breast and testicular cancer. Our inquiry is based on our continuing involvement in the peace and social justice movements and researching oil, chemical, and nuclear disasters. New findings support the social power theories of C. Wright Mills, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. Data analyzed in our book are based on the experiences of ordinary people attempting to deal with nuclear secrecy and deception.

Dr. Ron Hardert spent his entire career in the Sociology Department at Arizona State University, retiring from that institution as emeritus professor. Hardert's other books include Kimball Young on Sociology in Transition (University Press of America, 1995); Confronting Social Problems (West Publishing, 1984); Atom's Eve: Ending the Nuclear Age (McGraw Hill, 1980), and Sociology and Social Issues (Dryden, 1977). Dr. Mark Reader spent most of his career teaching political theory at Arizona State University; he also taught at Allegheny College and at the American Graduate School of International Management. Professor Reader is a long-term critic of nuclear power whose books include Atom's Eve: Ending the Nuclear Age and Energy: The Human Dimension.