Sentence examples for uranium war from inspiring English sources

To read more about the American uranium rush of the 1950s, check out "Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World," by Tom Zoellner.

With "Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World," the journalist Tom Zoellner sets out to rectify that lack of familiarity.

In 2011, Zoellner published a book titled "Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World," the biography of a controversial element that, as Zoellner writes, can either sustain earth or destroy it.

Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age.

The announcement coincides with the publication of a book in France next week, "Depleted Uranium, Invisible War," that has researched the contamination of the depleted uranium and its consequences and is causing a stir in Paris.

Whether it be from reactors or bombs, or a total absence of being able to deal with contaminated waste, or the use of so-called "depleted uranium" in war zones, the nuclear industry poses an enormous risk.

In addition to depleted uranium other war-related environmental factors have been studied and linked directly or indirectly with the increasing prevalence of birth defects.

WASHINGTON — The only American-owned plant for enriching uranium, a cold war relic near Paducah, Ky., will be shut down next month, its operator said on Friday.

A half-century ago, Western Kentucky was so thrilled about the opening of a cold war uranium enrichment plant that it named a community Cimota -- "atomic" spelled backward.

He recalled starting his conversation with Bohr by raising a question about whether it was "right" for physicists to work on uranium during the war, given that it could lead to "grave consequences".

The importance of Congolese uranium during the war caused the Soviet Union to become interested in the territory; it was subsequently an area of Soviet interest during the Cold War.