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  • Producing Power

    The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry

    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.The Chernobyl disaster has been variously ascribed to human error, reactor design flaws, and industry mismanagement. Six former Chernobyl employees were convicted of criminal negligence; they defended themselves by pointing to ... Leer más

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  • Chernobyl

    The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

    de Serhii Plokhy ...
    A Chernobyl survivor and New York Times** bestselling author delivers the definitive history of the worst nuclear accident in history.****“The most comprehensive and convincing history of Chernobyl yet to appear in English.” ―**Financial TimesOn the morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. The outburst put the region on the brink of ... Leer más

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  • Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    de Kate Brown ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Legacy of Chernobyl

    "A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its origins in the plant's primitive design and careless management to the economic and political crisis the accident precipitated." —Clenn Garelik, New York Times Book ReviewOn the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the ... Leer más

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  • Oppenheimer

    The Tragic Intellect

    At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the ... Leer más

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  • Tracing the Atom

    Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

    Edición de Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay ... Leer más

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  • The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War

    A study of nuclear warfare's key role in triggering the post-World War II confrontation between the US and the USSRAfter a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III.In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and ... Leer más

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  • The Chernobyl Disaster

    The Nuclear Catastrophe and its Devastating Effects

    de 50minutes ...
    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Chernobyl disaster in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Chernobyl disaster. When a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986, nobody could have known just how devastating the effects would be. Thousands of people died as a result of the ... Leer más

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  • Red Cloud at Dawn

    Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEFollowing the trail of espionage and technological innovation, and making use of newly opened archives, Michael D. Gordin provides a new understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race and fresh insight into the problem of proliferation.On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. ... Leer más

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  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Leer más

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  • Chernobyl Explosion

    How a Deadly Nuclear Accident Frightened the World

    Series series Captured Science History
    The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst nuclear disaster in history. About 10,000 people have died or will die because of their exposure to ... Leer más

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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century

    Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Cambridge (UK) and Göttingen (Germany), appointed professor at UC-Berkeley and Caltech, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was on the forefront of the rise of theoretical physics in the United States to world-class status, contributing to the ... Leer más

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