[en] Following the United States' launch of the Atoms for Peace program in the 1950s,
nuclear power appeared to be the modern solution to humankind's energy problems. West
European democracies like Austria, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and
Sweden developed plans to supply nuclear energy nationwide. Early protests started in
1954 after atomic testing in the Pacific and were directed against military use of nuclear
power and atomic weapons. Later protests shifted the focus to civilian use of atomic power …

The book certainly works as a history of (one) technology, but it's not a particularly technical
history in a detailed sense. That'sa fairly typical feature of cinema history; on the whole, the
artistic products of the medium attract wider interest than the gears, shutters, lenses, and
other elements that make them happen—not necessarily a bad thing. Christie certainly
covers the significant apparatuses of Paul's career (Animatograph, Unipivot Galvanometer,
Bragg-Paul Pulsator, etc.) with accuracy and understanding, but his discussion tends not to …

Denmark was home to one of the great pioneers of nuclear research, Niels Bohr, whose lab
played a pivotal role in nuclear fission research in the 1920s and 1930s. Bohr joined the
United States Manhattan project during the Second World War (Nielsen et al. 1999, 64) and
played an important role in the establishment of nuclear research in postwar Denmark, as
influential chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Still, the country never moved
towards the commercial use of nuclear power. Today nuclear power does not even feature …