Nuclear Insights: Volume 2: Contemporary Threats and Prospects: the Cold War Legacy (Volume 2)

This second volume identifies and evaluates Cold War residual consequences, especially those related to nuclear weapons and their evolution.

It provides a knowledgeable assessment of current risks and future potential of peaceful nuclear technology and inherited nuclear weapons.

In this revised edition, a comparative assessment has been included of the nuclear accidents at Fukushima (Japan), Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island reactors.

The respective roles of the three volumes in "Nuclear Insights": Volume 1 is a insider history of nuclear weapons development during the Cold War, and Volume 3 is a technically informed perspective about nuclear reductions and arms control. Thus, Volume 2 reports on and examines current nuclear technology, peaceful applications, and proliferation risks.

All three volumes are unique, having originated with a written collaboration by four nuclear scientists and engineers, from both sides of the Cold War Iron Curtain, all of whom had hands-on experience with nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.