books by J. Samuel Walker

books by J. Samuel Walker

books:

J. Samuel Walker

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective

J. Samuel Walker

University of California Press, 2006

This is why we have no new Nuke power plants built
Read this for graduate American history course. The book in review, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, written by Samuel Walker is a subtle but powerful warning regarding the issue of nuclear power. The style of the book is almost of a ...

American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review (Contributions in American History)
Gerald K. Haines, J. Samuel Walker

Greenwood Press, 1981

Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
J. Samuel Walker

University of California Press, 2000

How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation--caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, ...

Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963-1971
J. Samuel Walker

University of California Press, 1992

The late 1960s saw an extraordinary growth in the American nuclear industry: dozens of plants of unprecedented size were ordered throughout the country. Yet at the same time, public concern about the natural environment and suspicion of both government and industry increased dramatically. Containing the Atom is the first scholarly history of ...

Henry A. Wallace and American Foreign Policy (Contributions in American History)
Henry A. Wallace, J. Samuel Walker

Greenwood Press, 1976

Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan

J. Samuel Walker

The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Historiography at its Finest
One of the most complex, divisive, and nuanced debates in the history of the twentieth century is the decision by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in August 1945 to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thereby ending World War II. A traditional ...

Technology and Culture: The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology (Volume 42, ...
Anne Kelly Knowles, William J. Ashworth, ...

Society for the History of Technology, 2001

Contents: Knowles, "Labor, Race, and Technology in the Confederate Iron Industry"; Ashworth, "Between the Trader and the Public: British Alcohol Standards and the Proof of Good Governance"; Slaton, "As Near as Practicable"; Precision, Ambiguity, and the Social Features of Industrial Quality Control"; Conway, "The Politics of Blind Landing"; ...