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eBook
Plutopia
2013
Overview
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. She draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly unstable and threatening today.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject
/ General history of North America United States
/ History
/ Industrial safety -- Government policy -- Soviet Union -- Case studies
/ Industrial safety -- Government policy -- United States -- Case studies
/ Ozersk (Cheliabinskaia oblast)
/ Ozersk (Cheliabinskaia oblast, Russia)
/ Ozërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) -- History -- 20th century
/ Plutonium industry -- Accidents -- Washington (State) -- Richland -- History -- 20th century
/ Plutonium industry -- Social aspects -- Washington (State) -- Richland -- History -- 20th century
/ Richland
/ Richland (Wash.) -- History -- 20th century
/ Working class families -- Washington (State) -- Richland -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
9780199855773, 0199855773, 0199855765, 9780199855766
