📚 Nuclear Energy & Weapons

The atom split and fused: reactors, radiation and the bomb, and the argument over whether the same physics is our future or our danger.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nuclear energy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Atomic energy	United States	1966	34
	Worlds Within Worlds	Isaac Asimov	1972	15
	The birth and death of the sun	George Gamow	1940	14
	Atomic bombs	Henry De Wolf Smyth	1945	13
	Heller als tausend Sonnen	Robert Jungk	1956	13
	Inside the atom	Isaac Asimov	1956	12
	Nuclear energy in Britain	Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division.	1957	12
	Development, growth, and state of the atomic energy industry	United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy	1955	10
	Peaceful uses of atomic energy	International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (4th 1971 Geneva)	1972	10
	Finding Out about Nuclear Energy	Matt Doeden	2014	10
	God and the Atom	Ronald Arbuthnott Knox	1919	9
	Nuclear Legislation in OECD Countries	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	2006	9
	Nuclear reactor engineering	Samuel Glasstone	1963	8
	Atomic energy policy in France under the Fourth Republic	Lawrence Scheinman	1965	8
	Curve of Binding Energy	John McPhee	1974	8
	Nuclear Energy and Global Governance	Trevor Findlay	2010	8
	Dawn over zero	William Leonard Laurence	1946	7
	The traitors	Alan Moorehead	1952	7
	Nuclear power	Kenneth Jay	1961	7
	Glossary of atomic terms	United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.	1961	7
	Nuclear energy	Chris Oxlade	2011	7
	Atom harvest	Leonard Bertin	1955	6
	Canada's nuclear story	Wilfrid Eggleston	1965	6
	Progress in Nuclear Energy	M. M. R. Williams	1982	6
	Economics of Nuclear Power	Geoffrey Rothwell	2015	6
	Modern Applications	Frank Rösch	2016	6
	Chernobyl	Serhii Plokhy	2018	6
	Foundations of the atomic theory	John Dalton	1893	5
	Atomic energy in cosmic and human life	George Gamow	1946	5
	Young people's book of atomic energy	Robert D. Potter	1946	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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