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- Title
Why Nuclear Power Must Go.
- Authors
Williams, Chris
- Abstract
From the very beginning, unlocking the power of the atom for “peaceful” energy production was about waging war to its logical endpoint: the power to destroy life on a planetary scale. People around the world were aghast at the apocalyptic destruction wreaked on Japan during a few hellish minutes when the United States dropped the nuclear bombs codenamed Little Boy and Fat Man on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The immediate loss of life, in the tens of thousands, coupled with the invisible and long-term effects of radiation sickness and cancers, brought the world up against the sharp razor edge of the nuclear age.
- Subjects
JAPAN; ENERGY consumption -- Social aspects; NUCLEAR energy &; the environment; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of radiation; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation -- Social aspects; BOMBARDMENT of Hiroshima, Japan, 1945; BOMBARDMENT of Nagasaki-shi (Japan), 1945
- Publication
Synthesis-Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought, 2011, Issue 56, p7
- ISSN
1083-7639
- Publication type
Article