Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century

About the Book

     During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters.  Dr. Newtan’s book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century:

The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion)

The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bomb

The destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb

The hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bomb

Radioactive fallout

Radiological weapons

The BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb)

Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster

Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster

Fermi I breeder reactor disaster

Nuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.)

Thresher nuclear submarine disaster

Scorpion nuclear submarine disaster

Nuclear satellite disasters

Lost nuclear weapons

Lost nuclear fissile materials for weapons

Nuclear waste disasters

Acts of war on nuclear facilities

Nuclear terrorism

Proliferation of nuclear weapons

Nuclear reactors in space

Nuclear weapons in space

Nuclear waste – can it be safely stored for millennia?

About the Author

     Samuel Upton Newtan’s educational background is engineering (Ph.D.) followed by over 40 years of engineering practice.  He has published widely in the engineering field as well as on issues related to nuclear policy.  The latter includes proliferation of nuclear weapons, proliferation of ballistic missiles, and measures to protect nuclear facilities from acts of war.