# The Leak

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- Book: [The Leak](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-p-crease/the-leak) ([The Leak.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-p-crease/the-leak.md))
- Authors: [Robert P. Crease](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-p-crease), [Peter D. Bond](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-d-bond)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-718-0
- Pages: 344
- Published: 2022-10-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National...