Nukespeak

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I was a college freshman and (I think) the youngest member of the Boston-area Clamshell Alliance.

That’s how I first met Steve Hilgartner, the baby-faced, iron-spined antinuclear activist. A few years later I got to know Steve Hilgartner and Dick Bell a bit better when I worked one summer as an energy researcher for a nonprofit they had set up on Beacon Hill. And when their book Nukespeak came out from Sierra Club Books (with coauthor Rory O’Connor) they signed my copy, which still has an honored place on my shelf

Recently I saw that a book called Nukespeak had just been published. My first reaction was outrage: Someone stole my friends’ title! But as it turns out, Sierra Club has followed its original post-Three Mile Island edition of Nukespeak with a new post-Fukushima edition, available as an ebook (more details at the Nukespeak website).