“Blessed are the troublemakers,” writes von Hippel, noted physicist and leading advocate for public interest science. “Written with an astute understanding of issues underlying public policy, Citizen Scientist is a reasoned plea for a more knowledgeable public, a humane policy process, and a safer planet.”
Thought-provoking illustrated essays on nuclear power, the health effects of radiation, energy efficiency, solar energy, public health concepts, technology, science and medicine, human rights, liberty, law, nuclear weapons, and “suggestions for possibly useful actions.”
Sleepwalking to Armageddon is a compilation of essays on the mechanics, the likelihood and the potential consequences of nuclear war, should bellicosity become reality. Contributors include esteemed thinkers and scientists representing a wide range of relevant experience.
Edited by Nobel Prize Nominee and pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, this slim volume is a particularly timely book during this second year of an American administration that has openly flirted with nuclear war with North Korea. The current American administration has brought us closer to that un-winnable scenario than we have ever been since those terrifying days in 1962.
Author(s): National Research Council Board on Radiation Effects Research (2003)
“The committee believes that the CDC-NCI (Center for Disease Control- National Cancer Institute) working group performed a very competent feasibility assessment of the geographic distribution of probable doses to the population, the projected risks associated with those does, and a potential communication plan. However, the committee has identified some weaknesses in the feasibility study and the draft report and has a number of suggestions for improvements.”
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