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The Nuclear State (1977)
| Author | Robert Jungk |
| Date | 1977 |
| Classification | 6.02.5.00/13 (ATOMIC STATE - GENERAL) |
| Remarks | Also available in Dutch (6.02.5.00/01) and German (6.02.5.00/10) |
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From the publication:
Foreword The Hard Path The arrival of nuclear fission not only radically changed modern history, but opened up new dimensions of terror. Nuclear power was first used to make weapons of total destruction for use against military enemies, but today it even imperils citizens in their own country, because there is no fundamental difference between atoms for peace and atoms for war. Although it is claimed that peaceful nuclear energy will in future only be used for constructive purposes and for the benefit of mankind, the potentially lethal effect of this new energy cannot be disguised. Certain measures can be taken to eliminate the dangers, but these can only partially succeed, and even the strongest advocates of nuclear energy admit this. There will always be accidents, and although they may for some time be small in scale and localized, there is always the possibility of a major disaster with long- term effects that can quickly wipe out whatever theoretical or practical benefits nuclear energy might bring, and that threat is enough to counterbalance those benefits, even at the present time.
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