• Media type: Book
  • Title: Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters
  • Contains: Part One. Incarcerated space and Western nuclear frontiersMr. 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
  • Contributor: Brown, Kate [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford; New York; Auckland: Oxford University Press, [2013]
  • Extent: x, 406 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten; 25 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780199855766; 9780190233105
  • RVK notation: AR 26380 : Kernenergieanlagen
    NU 1500 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Plutoniumwirtschaft > Arbeiterfamilie > Industriegesellschaft > Unfall
    Plutoniumwirtschaft > Arbeiterfamilie > Industriegesellschaft > Unfall
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  • Footnote: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 341 - 398
  • Description: 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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