REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS for Nuclear Energy, the Environment and Proliferation Y45.2460, Fall 2009, Professor Chris Gadomski
Please
note that the following is a preliminary list subject to additions . I have not ordered any of these books through the NYU bookstore, as my students typically find them for much less online at Amazon. Click
on link below to go directly to Amazon.
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• Gawdat Bahgat, Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006) ISBN 978-0-8130-3316-7
• Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the Answer, (New York: The New Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-59558-067-2
• Alan Herbst & George Hopley, Nuclear Energy Now, (Hoboken, NY, John Wiley& Sons, Inc.2007) ISBN 978-0-470-05136-8
• John Hershey, Hiroshima (Bantan Press 1968)
• Sharon Squassoni, Nuclear Energy: Rebirth or Resuscitation?, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-483-7600 Fax: 202-483-1840 download from www.CarnegieEndowment.org http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/nuclear_energy_rebirth_resuscitation.pdf
• Nuclear Energy Today, (Paris: OECD Publications, 2003) ISBN 92-64-10328-7, available at www.nea.fr/h tml/pub/nuclearenergytoday/welcome.html
• The Wall Street Journal, or The Financial Times, or The New York Times. Bring relevant articles to each class for discussion.
• Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence, (Boston: Beacon Press) ISBN 9780807085769
• Robert Nadeau, The Environmental End Game, (New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2006
• James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-300-10776-5
• William Tucker, Terrestrial Energy, (Bartleby Press, 2008)
• Andrew Dessler, Edward A. Parson, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006) ISBN 13 978-0-521-53941-8