Books by J. Samuel Walker

?Walker's volume, which derived from his Ph.D. dissertation, is a study of Henry A. Wallace's thinking on foreign policy. Beginning with Wallace's early years, Walker takes his readers through the disastrous 1948 Progressive party episode as well as into Wallace's waning years. The book is solidly researched, making good use of archival material.?-Choice

How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation-caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources-have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.

Traces the US government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, this work investigates the approaches adopted by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

On March 28, 1979 the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States occurred at Three Mile Island. This is the comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the Three Mile Island crisis. It captures the high human drama surrounding the accident.