Manual for Survival

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political roadblocks. Efforts to gain access to the site of catastrophic radiation damage were denied, and the residents of Chernobyl were given no answers as their lives hung in the balance. Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other catastrophic nuclear incidents.

About the author

Kate Brown is a distinguished professor in the history of science at MIT and author of four previous prize-winning books, including Manual for Survival, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Greensboro, Vermont.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Brown
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2020
• EAN: 9780393357769
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35776-9
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 208 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; NATURE / Natural Resources, Russia, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, HISTORY / World, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy & protocols, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Central government policies, Environmental policy and protocols, History of other lands, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era