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There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis—but that hasn’t stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed.

This should come as no surprise. After all, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths while the industry reaps the rewards of taxpayer-funded subsidies.

No To Nuclear calls the industry’s bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice.

The book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of colour, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector, and questions whether the way we devalue nature and the environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.

Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its international specialist. Previously, she was a journalist at USA Network, Reuters, and The Times. She launched, and writes for Beyond Nuclear’s online magazine, Beyond Nuclear International.

DR. GWEN DUBOIS, President of CPSR, has been a nuclear abolitionist for decades, lecturing on the medical consequences, involved in protests and risking arrest. She was a civilian lobbyist at U.N. preparatory meetings for the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, and co-founded Prevent Nuclear War Maryland. She has lectured on the health harms of particulate matter and from gas appliances and was involved in a successful campaign in Curtis Bay to pull the permit of a hazardous waste incinerator. She is on the boards of PSR and Back from the Brink. Dr. DuBois practiced internal medicine for decades and is an instructor of medicine at Johns Hopkins.