HEAVY METALS, HERE TO STAY

Abstract

Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World, by Tom Zoellner. VikingPenguin, 2009. 337 pages, $26.95.

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element, by Jeremy Bernstein.Joseph Henry Press, 2007. 194 pages, $27.95.

Keywords:

• Fissile material
• uranium
• plutonium
• nuclear weapons

Notes

1. The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History, “The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945,” U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources, <www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm>.

2. Rob Pavey, “TVA Might Use MOX Fuels from SRS,” Augusta Chronicle, June 10, 2009.

3. “Nonproliferation Programs,” DOE, Savannah River Site, <www.srs.gov/general/programs/nnp/index.htm>.