Going Nuclear: Ireland, Britain and the Campaign to Close Sellafield

by Veronica Mcdermott

For more than two decades, all parties in Ireland played out their obsession with 'closing down Sellafield' with each other and with the Irish public. Going Nuclear explores the historical origins of Ireland's anti-nuclear stance; how it became a defining issue in Irish politics and British-Irish relations of the late 20th century and served as an allegory for the wider debate on nuclear power throughout western society. Going Nuclear coincides with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716529084
• ISBN13: 9780716529088
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 336 Pages