Books
February, 1981
One of the ironies of our new high-tech society is that we don't even know the words for the things we are afraid of. It's only when our complex systems fail that we learn such esoteric terms as brownout and gridlock. In March of 1979, our common vocabulary took a quantum leap with the addition of a new frightening term, meltdown. In his book Three Mile Island (Random House), Mark Stephens gives us a painstakingly detailed definition of the word and its dire implications. His step-by-step, minut...
