From the back cover: Already nuclear energy affects us all - the light we use, the hospital treatment we receive. Before long, it will revolutionize transport.
In fact, in the not-too-distant future, the harnessed power of the hydrogen bomb- if it does not destroy us all first - can make this earth a paradise.
Nuclear energy is a subject we should, indeed must, understand and in this book, a well-known writer on scientific subjects gives us the know-how.
Starting with the discovery of radium by Madame Curie in the 1890's, step by step he takes the story of atomic energy to the end of our century - when quite fantastic changes will have taken place.
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Paperback, good condition. First paperback edition.
Published by Pan Books, 1958.