CategoryVisions book

I haven’t sent anything out about the history of nuclear power since mid-December. In the previous eight-and-a-half years, I consistently wrote a small piece every week or so, forty pieces a year, 342 in total. I had no grand aim. I just needed an outlet in which to jot down those minor aspects of nuclear power’s story (and not the entire tale, just the first fifteen years) that were. . .

I’ve been absent here for over a month. I’m sure you’ll forgive me when you hear that, after all these years, I spent that time reaching the point of a working book manuscript. I’ve had drafts of all fifteen chapters for a couple of years but those drafts retained pockets of narrative and stylistic weakness. What I had was not quite a “manuscript,” a document I. . .