Megawatts and Megatons is a 2001 book by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...

. The book is said to be a good primer on nuclear power

Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...

 and also a detailed discussion of nuclear weapons and potential paths for weapons reduction.

The book presents detailed information about nuclear reactors and provides useful information on nuclear power program development in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. A discussion on nuclear weapons and non-proliferation follows.