Dark Horses

A SURVEY of occasional literature on nuclear power could have no better starting place than Petr Beckmann’s Nuclear Proliferation: How to Blunder into Promoting It (The Golem Press, Box 1342, Boulder, Colo. 80306; $2).

Beckmann—whose seminal Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear was previously noted in “Dark Horses” and is considered elsewhere in this issue [see p. 186]—is an acknowledged master of technical-scientific issues in nuclear discussion and also of invective against the anti-nuclear Luddites. True to this reputation, the present study is both a primer on nuclear basics and a powerful argument in favor of developing nuclear energy in general and fast breeder reactors in particular.

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A SURVEY of occasional literature on nuclear power could have no better starting place than Petr Beckmann’s Nuclear Proliferation: How to Blunder into Promoting It (The Golem Press, Box 1342, Boulder, Colo. 80306; $2).

Beckmann—whose seminal Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear was previously noted in “Dark Horses” and is considered elsewhere in this issue [see p. 186]—is an acknowledged master of technical-scientific issues in nuclear discussion and also of invective against the anti-nuclear Luddites. True to this reputation, the present study is both a primer on nuclear basics and a powerful argument in favor of developing nuclear energy in general and fast breeder reactors in particular.