ISBN:
9780199855766
,
9780190233105
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 406 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
25 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brown, Kathryn L. Plutopia
DDC:
363.17/99094743
Keywords:
Plutonium industry Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Plutonium industry Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Working class families History 20th century
;
Working class families History 20th century
;
Plutonium industry Accidents 20th century
;
History
;
Plutonium industry Accidents 20th century
;
History
;
Industrial safety Case studies Government policy
;
Industrial safety Case studies Government policy
;
Plutonium industry Social aspects
;
History
;
20th century
;
Russia (Federation)
;
Plutonium industry Social aspects
;
History
;
20th century
;
Washington (State)
;
Richland
;
Working class families History
;
20th century
;
Russia (Federation)
;
Working class families History
;
20th century
;
Washington (State)
;
Richland
;
Plutonium industry Accidents
;
History
;
20th century
;
Russia (Federation)
;
Plutonium industry Accidents
;
History
;
20th century
;
Washington (State)
;
Richland
;
Industrial safety Case studies
;
Government policy
;
Soviet Union
;
Industrial safety Case studies
;
Government policy
;
United States
;
Kernwaffe
;
Kernbrennstoffherstellung
;
Plutonium
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Sozialklausel
;
Risiko
;
Risikomanagement
;
Fallstudie
;
Ozërsk (Cheli︠a︡binskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) History 20th century
;
Richland (Wash.) History 20th century
;
Richland (Wash.) History
;
20th century
;
USA
;
Sowjetunion
;
Plutoniumwirtschaft
;
Arbeiterfamilie
;
Industriegesellschaft
;
Unfall
;
Plutoniumwirtschaft
;
Arbeiterfamilie
;
Industriegesellschaft
;
Unfall
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 341 - 398
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