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Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
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4.28 avg rating — 337 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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3.73 avg rating — 31,838 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,371 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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3.87 avg rating — 9,371 ratings
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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science
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3.86 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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4.01 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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Rocket Girl
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3.86 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
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4.44 avg rating — 6,901 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,482 ratings
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
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3.91 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests
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3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
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4.15 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Radioactive!: How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
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3.99 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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4.27 avg rating — 14,451 ratings
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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
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3.98 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
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3.83 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Uncle Tungsten
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3.99 avg rating — 7,018 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4.31 avg rating — 58,352 ratings
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Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
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3.71 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 9,995 ratings
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