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245 10 a| Plutopiah| [electronic resource] :b| nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters /c| Kate Brown.;

260 a| Oxford :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2013];

300 a| x, 406 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-398) and index.;

505 0 a| Part One. 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 Two. 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 Three. 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 Four. 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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Plutopia nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters / Kate Brown.

Author/creator	Brown, Kate
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Description	x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Plutonium industry--Social aspects. --Russia (Federation). --Ozërsk (Cheli͡abinskai͡a oblastʹ). --History. --20th century. Plutonium industry--Social aspects. --Washington (State). --Richland. --History. --20th century. Working class families--Russia (Federation). --Ozërsk (Cheli͡abinskai͡a oblastʹ). --History. --20th century. Working class families--Washington (State). --Richland. --History. --20th century. Plutonium industry--Accidents. --Russia (Federation). --Ozërsk (Cheli͡abinskai͡a oblastʹ). --History. --20th century. Plutonium industry--Accidents. --Washington (State). --Richland. --History. --20th century. Industrial safety--Government policy. --Soviet Union. --Case studies. Industrial safety--Government policy. --United States. --Case studies. Ozërsk (Cheli͡abinskai͡a oblastʹ, Russia)--History. --20th century. Richland (Wash.)--History. --20th century.

Contents	Part One. 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 Two. 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 Three. 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 Four. 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-398) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012041758
ISBN	9780199855766 (acid-free paper)

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