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There are two aspects of nuclear power development. The first aspect is the supply of massive amount of energy at a low cost to develop human civilization, the peaceful atom. The second aspect is the supply of, the military atom, massive amount of weapons to destroy the human civilization. This book is about understanding the relationship between developments of these two aspects of nuclear power in three perspectives: past, present, and future.
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Wells, H. G. (1914). The World Set Free. London: Macmillan.
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Basu, D., Miroshnik, V.W. (2019). Introduction. In: The Political Economy of Nuclear Energy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27029-2_1
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