The Atom Besieged: Extraparlimentary Dissent in France and Germany

by Michael Pollak and Dorothy Nelkin

Book Overview

"Pennsylvania is everywhere!" This was the rallying cry throughout Europe in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident. Certainly the fears of anti-nuclear activists for their safety and for the well-being of future generations provided emotional fuel for the demonstrations, whether fears were based on expertise and factual documentation or on instinctive reactions to the unknown. But The Atom Besiegedargues that persistent opposition to nuclear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140349
• ISBN13: 9780262140348
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.