Books By Dr. Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott is the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

She has been hailed as one of the most influential women of the 20th century, recognized for the contributions she has made to medicine and science.

Caldicott is an expert and has authored a number of books about the hazards of nuclear energy and the danger it poses to the planet and to earth's inhabitants.

For fans of Caldicott's work and/or for those who want to learn more about her books, this Hub lists her published works with descriptions of each title for easy reference.

Dr. Caldicott pulls back the curtain and reveals how nuclear energy is one of the biggest threats to earth's inhabitants.

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384 pages, New Press, 2012

This book presents key interviews from Dr. Caldicott's popular radio show, featuring environmentalists and leading activists from around the globe, covering key issues facing us: sea level rise, privatization of water reserves, as well as raising awareness of the dangers of nuclear energy: how the IAEA and WHO have drastically underestimated the number of deaths caused by the Chernobyl fallout.

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384 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, Revised and Updated, 2009

Helen Caldicott is a key player and spokeswoman for the antinuclear movement. This is a revised and updated edition of her widely acclaimed classic If You Love This Planet, which explores environmental issues such as pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, global warming. The author presents a frank picture of the forces that threaten our future existence.

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280 pages, (co-authored with Craig Eisendrath), The New Press 2007

Weapons in outer space?
War in Heaven looks at the history of the military use of space and plans for militarizing the heavens, which include kinetic, laser, nuclear bombardment, and anti-satellite weapons.

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220 pages, The New Press, 1 edition August 15, 2006

Debunking claims that nuclear energy is clean and green, Dr. Caldicott refutes the claims that nuclear energy is the answer to global warming, and she reveals how enormous amounts of fossil fuels are burned during the nuclear energy process. She outlines how nuclear reactors pollute vast amounts of water and touches on how radioactive elements threaten the food chain. Caldicott presents a sobering argument about safe storage of radioactive waste that remains a threat for untold millennia.

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304 pages, The New Press, Revised Edition edition April 2004

Long-time antinuclear activist, author and pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott contends that investing in nuclear weapons is ineffective in fighting terrorists. In this book, she focuses on the ties between the American nuclear arsenal and large corporations, which have their own interests/agendas. She reveals how taxpayer dollars are spent on questionable defense projects and offers solutions that entail environmental and health care aspects.

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240 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, Revised edition, 1994

Those Who Sound a Warning are Rarely Listened to . . . Until it is too Late . . . Internationally recognized antinuclear activist, Helen Caldicott, sounded a warning that if trends in use of nuclear energy continued, the air, food, and water would be contaminated by radioactive material. In subsequent years, her assessment became chillingly true. The Chernobyl accident + other incidents at nuclear power plants around the world and now Fukushima have aptly demonstrated the dangers of nuclear energy and how it has placed earth and its inhabitants in peril.

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232 pages, W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition 1992

The Planet is Desperately ill

A member/founder of International Physicians to Save the Environment, Dr. Helen Caldicott warned that if the human race did not change its behavior, the ecosphere was potentially doomed. In this book, she details the scientific/medical dangers of toxic pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, excess energy consumption, the greenhouse effect and global warming and offers suggestions as to how to save the planet.

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• New Nuclear Danger, 2004
• The Coming Nuclear War: Manhattan Project II, the National Missile Defense, and How to Avert Catastrophe, 2001
• A Desperate Passion: an Autobiography, 1997
• A Passionate Life, 1996
• Towards a Compassionate Society, 1991
• Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War, 1986
• Nuclear Madness: What You Can do, 1978

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In addition to her books, Helen's other works, including her lectures and articles, are available in digital format as well as audio cassette.

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