Megawatts + Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons

by Richard Garwin and Georges Charpak University of Chicago Press, $20

“We now have a book in which all aspects of the interaction between these two applications of nuclear energy are acknowledged and frankly examined, and the awesome global implications laid bare.” Stuart Young, Nature 414, 487–488 (2001).

Our Cosmic Habitat

by Martin Rees

Phoenix Press, £7.99

A Thin Cosmic Rain

by Michael W. Friedlander

Harvard University Press, $17.95, £11.95, €18