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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 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. Fully employed and medically monitored, the residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed all the pleasures of consumer society, while nearby, migrants, prisoners, and soldiers were banned from plutopia--they lived in temporary "staging grounds" and often performed the most dangerous work at the plant. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted. In four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the surrounding environment--equaling four Chernobyls--laying waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies. Because of the decades of secrecy, downwind and downriver neighbors of the plutonium plants had difficulty proving what they suspected, that the rash of illnesses, cancers, and birth defects in their communities were caused by the plants' radioactive emissions. 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. An untold and profoundly important piece of Cold War history, Plutopia invites readers to consider the nuclear footprint left by the arms race and the enormous price of paying for it. Home - American Academy The American Academy offers scholarships for up to one year to US junior researchers and senior scholars who wish to carry out independent research in the exciting SEEJ Table of Contents - American Association of Teachers SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL VOLUME 60 NUMBER 1 Spring 2016 Editorial FORUM BRIAN JAMES BAER: Introduction to Forum: On Translation and Translators in Soviet DIDiva Brian Moss MA MFT This essay is not meant to be comprehensive Instead it is the attempt to connect some dots that are rarely considered or discussed hopefully Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia One of the worst nuclear accidents to date was the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in Ukraine The accident killed 31 people directly and damaged Pasco Washington Police Shooting: Part of the Story Is Only Part of the Story Is Being Told About the Police Shooting in Pasco Nuclear weapons and the United States - Wikipedia The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons with help from the United Kingdom Canada and Australia and is the only country to have used
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