Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?

Explores the benefits and risks of nuclear energy, addressing a wide range of topics from its principles and use in weapons to its impact on public health and the environment.

Richard L. Garwin is Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor of physics at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute of Medicine. In 1996, he received the Enrico Fermi Award. He lives in Scarsdale, New York.<br><br>Georges Charpak is a member of the French <i>Académie des Sciences</i> and of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has long worked at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of electronic detectors of ionizing particles, used widely in physics, industry, and biology. He lives in Paris and Geneva.