Laurel Sefton MacDowell is professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her prior work on environmental history has been recognized by the Ontario Historical Society and the Canadian Historical Association.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Tuomas Räsänen, ‘Keep it Secret: The Environmental Effects of Nuclear Armament in the Soviet Union and the United States’Chapter 2. Fred Waage, ‘The Face of the Earth, the Shadow of the Bomb: Nuclear War and the First International Environmental Conference, "Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth," Princeton NJ, 1955’Chapter 3. Davide Orsini, ‘Experts at Risk: Military Secrets and Italian Radioecology around the U.S. Navy Nuclear Installation of La Maddalena’Chapter 4. Andrew Ramey, ‘The Calvert Cliffs Campaign, 1967-1971: Protecting the Public’s Right to Knowledge’Chapter 5. Susanne Bauer, Karena Kalmbach, Tatiana Kasperski, ‘From Pripyat to Paris, from Grassroots Memories to Globalized Knowledge Production: The Politics of Chernobyl Fallout’Chapter 6. James W. Feldman, ‘Permanence, Justice, and Nuclear Waste at Prairie Island’Chapter 7. Michael Greenberg, Henry Mayer, Charles Powers and David Kosson, ‘Nuclear Waste Management and Nuclear Power: A Tale of Two Essential United States Department of Energy Sites in Idaho and New Mexico’Chapter 8. Marissa Zappora Bell and David Eljiah Bell, ‘Port Hope Burning: The Trail of Eldorado, the Uranium Medical Research Centre, and Community Tension over Scientific Uncertainty’Chapter 9. Paul Jobin, ‘Nuclear «　Gypsies　»　 in Fukushima Before and After 3/11’

"Nuclear Portraits is an engaging addition to the dialogue on the increasingly complex impact of nuclear affairs, dominated by the relationship between risk and perception. In an age of "fake news" and "alternative facts," such clarion calls are valuable and necessary."- Jason S. Ridler (The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2:June 2018) "This is a much-need contribution to nuclear history, one that goes beyond technical, economic, and security related assessments of nuclear energy."- Sonja D. Schmid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Environmental History 24, Jan 2019)