"Citizen's guide to making informed choices about nuclear technologies, energy, and weapons"-- Provided by publisher.

The nuclear difference --Atoms and nuclei -- Radioactivity -- Radiation -- Energy from the nucleus -- Energy : using it, making it -- Nuclear reactors -- Reactor safety -- Nuclear waste and fuel cycles -- A future for nuclear fission? -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear weapons : history and technology -- Effects of nuclear weapons -- Delivering nuclear weapons -- Nuclear strategy -- Nuclear terrorism -- Defense in the nuclear age -- Arms control and nuclear proliferation -- A world without nuclear weapons? -- Nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear futures.