Book Review: Nuclear Energy -- What Everyone Needs to Know

Nuclear Energy--What Everyone Needs to Know<br>Author: Charles D. Ferguson<br>Softcover, 222 pages<br>ISBN 978-0-19-975946-0,<br>Oxford University Press, Inc., 2011<br> Writing a book for general consumptionis one of the most difficult assignmentsan author of technical material can takeon. Charles Ferguson, current presidentof the Federation of American Scientists,not only assumes this challenge but alsoattempts what I consider to be a non-traditionalmarriage of nuclear technology toproliferation issues in another volume ofthe long-running “What Everyone Needsto Know” series of Cambridge UniversityPress.