Download or read book Windscale 1957 written by Lorna Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to describe the event and its consequences and to evaluate it from the vantage point of 1990.