New York University
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
M.S. Program in Global Affairs
Economics and Finance of Energy, Y45.2420
Spring 2011
January 14, 2011

INSTRUCTOR: Chris Gadomski
http://www.smidirect.net/nyu
OFFICE HOURS: Monday by appointment
OFFICE PHONE:914.993.9060
E-mail:gadomski@nyu.edu

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS

This course examines the history of nuclear energy and its evolution from its military origins to its role today as a significant generator of carbon-free electricity. Given global concerns over carbon dioxide, to what extent will the industrial world deploy this technology as a weapon again increasing CO2 levels. Or will other technologies like fossil fuel carbon capture and storage or renewable solar, wind and geothermal technologies usher nuclear aside? What are the institutional, social, technical, economic, environmental and political benefits and obstacles to nuclear energy?

Please note that the following is a preliminary list subject to additions and deletions until the first day of class. All books are available online at Amazon. Click on link below to go directly to Amazon.

Required Reading

A book list has not been provided to the bookstore. Click the icon above for a direct link to Amazon:

• 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
• The Global Nuclear Future, Vol 1 & 2, published by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences http://www.amacad.org/publications/daedalus/fall2009/coverPage.aspx (Online articles are available free of charge through the NYU Library, search Daedalus)
• John Hershey, Hiroshima (Bantan Press 1968) Available as .pdf http://ia700300.us.archive.org/6/items/hiroshima035082mbp/hiroshima035082mbp.pdf
• Sharon Squassoni, Nuclear Energy: Rebirth or Resuscitation?, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 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/html/pub/nuclearenergytoday/welcome.html
• Tom Zoellner, Uranium, (New York: Penguin Books, 2009) ISBN 978-0-14-311672-1
• The Wall Street Journal, or The Financial Times, or The New York Times. Bring relevant articles to each class for discussion.

Suggested Supplementary Reading

• Alan Herbst & George Hopley, Nuclear Energy Now, (Hoboken, NY, John Wiley& Sons, Inc.2007) ISBN 978-0-470-05136-8
• Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East Princeton University | 2007 | ISBN: 0691131473, 0691134685 | 420 pages | PDF | 12 MBhttp://hotfile.com/dl/74436779/660f217/0691131473.rar.html
• Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence, (Boston: Beacon Press) ISBN 9780807085769
• 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

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