Walter Patterson

Walter Patterson is currently writing a report for the United States Library of Congress on the European impact of the Chernobyl accident. His books include The Plutonium Business and the Spread of the Bomb and Going critical: An Unofficial History of British Nuclear Power.

Letter
SIR: I thank Judith Cook for her kind words about me (Letters, 5 February). My intention was not, however, to bring the ‘inaccuracies and errors’ of her book Red Alert ‘to the attention of the nuclear industry’, some members of which may be surprised to hear Ms Cook call me their ‘advocate’. The nuclear industry will long since have catalogued the inaccuracies in Red Alert, and held them...

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