With climate change and environmental devastation threatening the quality of human and nonhuman life, our minds inevitably turn to energy, in particular to alternatives to fossil fuels. Since the Cold War, environmental movements have had a tendency to lump nuclear energy with the horror of nuclear weapons. (Websites for Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, for example, publish reports only on how “dirty” and “dangerous” nuclear power can be, without considering any opposing evidence.) This despite the fact that many green thinkers, well aware of nuclear energy’s potential dangers, have attempted to argue for its at least short-term benefit in the face of the global warming challenge (including George Monbiot, Ansel Adams, Mark Lynas, Patrick Moore, Ted Nordhaus, Chris Goodall, Jeffrey Sachs, James Lovelock, and Daniel Blumstein to name just a few).