Nuclear Barons by Peter Pringle (37 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nuclear Barons This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

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hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition, first printing. Large octavo, xii + 578 pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. "The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today.our nuclear world." Aromic Energy, Radiation Safety. 091625B This heavy book may cost more to ship internationally. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Documents decisions made by international scientists, technocrats, and businessmen concerning atomic energy policies in various countries which were never opened to public debate. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Nuclear Energy, Radiation, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 578 pages, illustrated. "The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, general, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issues confronting us today our nuclear world." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

First edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xii, 578 pages; 24 cm. Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-465) and index. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation Safety measures. Nuclear energy Social aspects.Radiation Safety measures.Nuclear energy History. Government policy History.Nuclear industry Social aspects. Genre: Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. Condition: good some creasing. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDgood copy, clean pages some minor creasing and nicks to cover, still a good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Price-clipped DJ. First Edition. First Edition, hardcover with a price-clipped dustjacket, 578 pages. The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today.our nuclear world. Condition: Very Good-. Military. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Nuclear Barons ? The Inside Story Of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare (1983) By Peter Pringle and James Spigelman | Sphere Books Sold by Crappy Old Books Long before Oppenheimer was a household name and ?mutually assured destruction? was dinner-table talk, The Nuclear Barons was blowing the lid off the shadowy world of atom-age ambition and political power plays. This gripping exposé traces how a handful of scientists, bureaucrats, and power-hungry policymakers built?and then lost control of?the most dangerous force humanity has ever unleashed. Peter Pringle and James Spigelman deliver a forensic, globe-spanning account of how post-war idealism curdled into Cold War paranoia, and how a club of elite insiders shaped the nuclear arms race, often in secret and usually without consequence. From Washington to Whitehall, Moscow to Paris, The Nuclear Barons doesn?t just tell a story?it names names and makes you wonder how we?re all still here. Condition: Slightly yellowed, with a radioactive whiff of Cold War paranoia. Cover may feature the bold confidence of early ?80s typography and the faint scent of despair. Still structurally intact?unlike international trust. Crappy Old Books: Your last line of defence against collective amnesia. Quite a large paperback. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 1 Kg.…

First edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xii, 578 pages; 24 cm. Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-465) and index. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation Safety measures. Nuclear energy Social aspects.Radiation Safety measures.Nuclear energy History. Government policy History.Nuclear industry Social aspects. Genre: Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover/pub.1981/Fair condition/578 pages - The chilling story of how a small hand of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting United States to day. Our nuclear world. [TE234196]. Book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover/pub.1981/Gd. condition/578 pages - The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today.our nuc lear world. [KR219800]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated by Pringle, Peter and James Spiegelman. Very good in very good dust jacket. (Pages: 578) Former owner's name stamp on top edge and inside front cover. Three internal pages wrinkled at top corner.; Dustwrapper has 1/2" tear at top of spine and along bottom edge of front panel. The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, generals, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issue confronting us today. our nuclear world.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xii, 578, [2] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ worn and wrinkled along edges. For thirty years Pringle was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He has also written for several U.S. newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. He is the author and co-author of several books on science and current affairs including: The Nuclear Barons, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981 (with translations into French, German and Japanese). James Jacob Spigelman AC, QC (born 1 January 1946) is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 25 May 1998 until 31 May 2011. On 8 March 2012 it was announced that he would become chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions. James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published. The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. Their decisions--usually kept secret, often shortsighted, sometimes veiled by lies and obfuscations--have led inexorably to the present nuclear mess. Radiation hazards, prohibitively costly energy, waste-disposal problems, plant safety, weapons proliferation: the nuclear nightmares we live with are the direct result of choices that were never thought through to their logical conclusions, never opened to public debate. Derived from a Kirkus review: Money, power, politics, optimism . . . all played their part in what Pringle, of the London Sunday Times, and Australian official Spigelman describe as a "Paracelsus" kind of folly--finding many points of comparison between today's nuclear barons and that 16th-century charlatan/medicine man. Carefully, chronologically, the authors lay in the background of 20th-century physics that led to nuclear fission, the bomb, and a current age in which reactor sales are at a low and public disillusion is high following Three Mile Island. Perhaps Pringle and Spigelman give too much prominence to Szilard as a prime mover in alerting Roosevelt to the potential for bomb development; perhaps they overemphasize the Manhattan Project as an engineering, rather than scientific, feat. But in a work as comprehensive and meticulously researched as this one, these are minor flaws that do not mar the overall design that the authors reveal. In the second half the history of postwar developments in nuclear energy is a litany of short-sightedness, of gambling for high stakes and losing, of wheeling-and-dealing and assuming the public interest. All this is spelled out in terms of the internal politics and personalities of the countries that make up the ever-growing nuclear club--the countries that openly or clandestinely have the bomb. Interwoven are the test ban treaties, the nonproliferation agreements, the cartels to control reactor prices, etc. England went its stubborn and disastrous way to develop gas-cooled reactors. The Germans carried on in typical efficient German style. The Indians were zealots, obsessed with joining the club. Espionage presumably played a role in Israeli developments. Pringle and Spigelman write with an objectivity that gives the work authenticity. They conclude that we have not learned very much nor gone very far in nuclear. Lawrence Ratzkin (Jacket Design) (illustrator).…