Wayne Biddle won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the “Star Wars” antimissile project. He is the author of five previous books, including A Field Guide to Germs, winner of the American Medical Writers Association’s Walter C. Alvarez Honor Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
“One big problem with man-made radiation: It isn’t going away any
time soon. Even if all nuclear reactors were halted and
decommissioned tomorrow, the radioactive material that fueled them
would remain deadly for tens of thousands of years. So, it’s best
to get used to it. In A Field Guide to Radiation, Wayne Biddle
provides an overview of man-made radiation, decoding the
terminology and helping readers to understand the difference
between beryllium and beta particles (the former being relatively
benign).”—The Washington Post
“Witty, succinct and handily organized in an A–Z
format.”—Nature
“An indispensable volume for every library. . . . A very readable
mini-encyclopedia.”—Booklist
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