Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the issue of radioactive waste in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s and provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials.