Richard Garwin and Georges Charpak @2001

My reading tastes will vary all over the place. This is a very wonky book. I didn't know why doppler spreading helped keep a nuclear reactor under control. If that's the level of detail you're looking for you've come to the right place.

Nuclear weapons and nuclear material don't really have anything in common so that could of been two seperate books. Unless you just like to know how things work. All the reactors today including the superpower's thought being able to produce bomb grade materials is a feature not a bug. Nobody has orderred a reactor in the USA since 1977 so they were designed in the 50s-60s. Even if you were to design a proliferation proof reactor today, an aspiring nuclear power would just order a reactor from France or Russia or somebody that doesn't have this feature.

On breeding and reprocessing, they show that there is sufficient uranium not to need it. That may depend on whether you think there will be 5000 or 50 reactors running mid-century. On whether we should build more of these things, they don't offer an opinion. Given that nobody has a clue what a new reactor will cost, I'm not sure how anybody could make a rational decision.