Critical Masses

1998 book written by Thomas Wellock

Critical Masses

Author| Thomas Wellock
Subject| Anti-nuclear movement in California
Publisher| University of Wisconsin Press

Publication date

| 1998
ISBN| 0299158543

Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 is the first detailed history of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, written by Thomas Wellock. It is also the first state-level research on the subject with a focus on California.[1][2] Reviewer Paula Garb has said:

> The book is rich with vivid verbal pictures and the passionate voices of participants on all sides of the controversy around the peaceful atom. It is based on interviews, documents from state and federal archives, and activist papers. Wellock brings to this project the expertise of a former engineer for civilian and navy nuclear reactors, a thorough archivist, and a sensitive interviewer.[2]

The central argument of the book is that the anti-nuclear movement played a key part in the Californian nuclear power demise up to 1978.[2]

## See also

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* California portal
* Energy portal
* Nuclear technology portal

* Anti-nuclear movement in California
* Anti-nuclear protests in the United States
* List of books about nuclear issues
* List of articles associated with nuclear issues in California
* Nuclear power in the United States
* Nuclear whistleblowers

## References

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1. ^ Thomas Raymond Wellock. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998, 333 pp.
2. ^ a b c Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society

## External links

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* Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
* Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation / Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 / Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant

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Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

General|

* Anti-nuclear groups in the US
* California movement
* Great Peace March
* Nuclear history of the United States
* Nuclear power in the US
* Canceled nuclear reactors in the US
* Nuclear weapons and the US
* Protests in the US
* Anti-nuclear advocates in the US

Organizations
and
groups

* Abalone Alliance
* Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
* Clamshell Alliance
* Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
* Corporate Accountability International
* Critical Mass Energy Project
* Friends of the Earth
* Greenpeace USA
* Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
* Mothers for Peace
* Musicians United for Safe Energy
* Nevada Desert Experience
* Nuclear Control Institute
* Nuclear Information and Resource Service
* Physicians for Social Responsibility
* Plowshares movement
* Ploughshares Fund
* Public Citizen
* Shad Alliance
* Sierra Club
* Three Mile Island Alert
* Women Strike for Peace
* Kings Bay Plowshares

People|

* Daniel Berrigan
* William J. Bichsel
* Bruce G. Blair
* Larry Bogart
* Helen Caldicott
* Barry Commoner
* Norman Cousins
* Frances Crowe
* Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
* Paul M. Doty
* Bernard T. Feld
* Randall Forsberg
* John Gofman
* Paul Gunter
* John Hall
* Jackie Hudson
* Sam Lovejoy
* Amory Lovins
* Bernard Lown
* Arjun Makhijani
* Gregory Minor
* Hermann Joseph Muller
* Ralph Nader
* Graham Nash
* Linus Pauling
* Eugene Rabinowitch
* Phil Radford
* Bonnie Raitt
* Carl Sagan
* Martin Sheen
* Karen Silkwood
* Thomas
* Louis Vitale
* Harvey Wasserman
* Victor Weisskopf

Main
protest
sites

* Black Fox
* Bodega Bay
* Diablo Canyon
* Indian Point
* Lawrence Livermore
* Montague
* Naval Base Kitsap
* Nevada Test Site
* Rancho Seco
* Rocky Flats
* San Onofre
* Seabrook
* Shoreham
* Three Mile Island
* Trojan
* Vermont Yankee
* White House Peace Vigil
* Y-12 Weapons Plant
* Yankee Rowe

Books|

* Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
* Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
* Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
* Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
* The Cult of the Atom
* The Doomsday Machine (book)
* Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
* Killing Our Own
* Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
* Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
* Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
* Nuclear Politics in America
* We Almost Lost Detroit

Films|

* Atomic Ed and the Black Hole
* The China Syndrome
* Countdown to Zero
* Dark Circle
* Nuclear Tipping Point
* Silkwood

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