Author Richard Rhodes will present, "The Need for Nuclear Power," as the next guest in The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center lecture series, "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility." The lecture is Wednesday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, and is free and open to the public. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of the President.
Rhodes has been outspoken about the relative environmental advantages of nuclear power. In journals such as Foreign Affairs (2000) he carefully compares the nuclear option to both fossil and renewable systems. Rhodes will make the argument for nuclear power and address issues many see as roadblocks.
Rhodes is the author of 18 books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize in History; Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense About Energy; and, most recently, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.
He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on nuclear issues on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.
