Plutopia - Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, Great Soviet American Plutonium

Informationen zum Autor Kate Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the author of A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, winner of the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, American Historical Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Harper's Magazine Online. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Brown, Kate Brown
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9780190233105
• ISBN: 978-0-19-023310-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Russia, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, Industrial relations, health & safety, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear power & engineering, Industry & industrial studies, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Industry and industrial studies, Personal safety, Nuclear power and engineering, HISTORY / Russia / General, SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / General