Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Power on March 28, 1979.

Grace Halden is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Preface: Nuclear Culture

Chapter One: Atoms for War: World War II and the Cultural History of Early Nuclear Development

Chapter Two: Atoms for Peace: Nuclear Power, and the Influence of the Long-1960s

Chapter Three: When Science and Society Collide: The Three Mile Island Accident in Human Context

Chapter Four: Nuclear Reactions: Three Mile Island in Popular Culture

Chapter Five: Fears and Fallout: Three Mile Island's Legacy, Chernobyl, and Fukushima