Windscale Fallout. A Primer for the Age of Cuclear Controversy

Wear to cover. Browning to edges of pages through age. Without nuclear power, says its defenders, we shall end fighting and freezing in the dark, With it, says its opponents, we shall risk the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the contamination of the enviornment, the further concentration of wealth and power in blighted urban centres, and an erosion of civil liberties. These contentions are what the Windscale public inquiry held in the summer of 1977, were mainly about, In this book the author assesses the British Government's recently announced decision on the Windscale finding, traces the birth of opposition to official nuclear power plans, and looks at what lies ahead in Britain and abroad for the protagonists. .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).