Worlds Within Worlds:
The Story of Nuclear Energy
Volume 3
Nuclear Fission · Nuclear Fusion · Beyond Fusion
by Isaac Asimov
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Office of Information Services
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-189477
1972
Nothing in the history of mankind has opened our eyes tothe possibilities of science as has the development of atomicpower. In the last 200 years, people have seen the coming ofthe steam engine, the steamboat, the railroad locomotive,the automobile, the airplane, radio, motion pictures, television,the machine age in general. Yet none of it seemed quiteso fantastic, quite so unbelievable, as what man has donesince 1939 with the atom ... there seem to be almost nolimits to what may lie ahead: inexhaustible energy, newworlds, ever-widening knowledge of the physical universe.Isaac Asimov
Nuclear energy is playing a vital role inthe life of every man, woman, and child in theUnited States today. In the years ahead it willaffect increasingly all the peoples of the earth.It is essential that all Americans gain anunderstanding of this vital force if they are todischarge thoughtfully their responsibilities ascitizens and if they are to realize fully themyriad benefits that nuclear energy offersthem.
The United States Atomic Energy Commissionprovides this booklet to help youachieve such understanding.
- UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
- Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Chairman
- James T. Ramey
- Dr. Clarence E. Larson
- William O. Doub
- Dr. Dixy Lee Ray
ISAAC ASIMOV received his academic degrees fromColumbia University and is Associate Professor of Biochemistryat the Boston University School of Medicine. He is aprolific author who has written over 100 books in the past18 years, including about 20 science fiction works, and booksfor children. His many excellent science books for the publiccover subjects in mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry,and biology, such as The Genetic Code, Inside the Atom,Building Blocks of the Universe, Understanding Physics, TheNew Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science, and Asimov’sBiographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. In1965 Dr. Asimov received the James T. Grady Award of theAmerican Chemical Society for his major contribution inreporting science progress to the public.
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