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001 2012041758
003 DLC
005 20130919075503.0
008 121106s2013 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012041758
020 $a9780199855766 (acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-ur---$an-us-wa
050 00 $aHD9539.P583$bS62 2013
082 00 $a363.17/99094743$223
100 1 $aBrown, Kate$q(Kathryn L.)
245 10 $aPlutopia :$bnuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters /$cKate Brown.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c[2013]
300 $ax, 406 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 341-398) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aPlutonium industry$xSocial aspects$zRussia (Federation)$zOzërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPlutonium industry$xSocial aspects$zWashington (State)$zRichland$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorking class families$zRussia (Federation)$zOzërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorking class families$zWashington (State)$zRichland$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPlutonium industry$xAccidents$zRussia (Federation)$zOzërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPlutonium industry$xAccidents$zWashington (State)$zRichland$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aOzërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aRichland (Wash.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIndustrial safety$xGovernment policy$zSoviet Union$vCase studies.
650 0 $aIndustrial safety$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$vCase studies.