Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters /

"While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraord...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Hanford Works
1900-1999
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  • Part I. Incarcerated space and Western nuclear frontiers
  • Mr. Matthias goes to Washington
  • Labor on the lam
  • Labor shortage
  • Defending the nation
  • The city plutonium built
  • Work and the women left holding plutonium
  • Hazards
  • The food chain
  • Of flies, mice and men
  • Part II. The Soviet working class atom and the American response
  • The arrest of a journal
  • The Gulag and the bomb
  • The Bronze Age atom
  • Keeping secrets
  • Beria's visit
  • Reporting for duty
  • Empire of calamity
  • "A few good men" : in pursuit of America's permanent war economy
  • Stalin's rocket engine : rewarding the plutonium people
  • Big Brother in the American heartland
  • Neighbors
  • The vodka society
  • Part III. The plutonium disasters
  • Managing a risk society
  • The walking wounded
  • Two autopsies
  • Wahluke Slope : into harm's way
  • Quiet flows the Techa
  • Resettlement
  • The zone of immunity
  • The socialist consumers' republic
  • The uses of an open society
  • The Kyshtym belch, 1957
  • Karabolka, beyond the zone
  • Private parts
  • "From crabs to caviar, we had everything"
  • Part IV. Dismantling the plutonium curtain
  • Plutonium into portfolio shares
  • Chernobyl redux
  • 1984
  • The forsaken
  • Sick people
  • Cassandra in coveralls
  • Nuclear glasnost
  • All the kings' men
  • Futures.

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