{"product_id":"2940011903755","title":"Day of the Moron","description":"There were still, in 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. Oldsters, in whom the term \"atomic energy\" produced semantic reactions associated with Hiroshima. Those who saw, in the towering steam-column above it, a tempting target for enemy--which still meant Soviet--bombers and guided missiles. Some of the Central Intelligence and F.B.I. people, who realized how futile even the most elaborate security measures were against a resourceful and suicidally determined saboteur. And a minority of engineers and nuclear physicists who remained unpersuaded that accidental blowups at nuclear-reaction plants were impossible.\u003cbr\u003eScott Melroy was among these last. He knew, as a matter of fact, that there had been several nasty, meticulously unpublicized, near-catastrophes at the Long Island Nuclear Reaction Plant, all involving the new Doernberg-Giardano breeder-reactors, and that there had been considerable carefully-hushed top-level acrimony before the Melroy Engineering Corporation had been given the contract to install the fully cybernetic control system intended to prevent a recurrence of such incidents.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152440967408,"sku":"2940011903755","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011903755_p0.jpg?v=1763551193","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011903755","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}