Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Author
Kate Brown
Language
English
Subjects
Nuclear energy; Cold War
Genre
Environmental history
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print
Pages
416
Awards
John H. Dunning Prize; George Perkins Marsh Prize; Ellis W. Hawley Prize
ISBN
9780199855766
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters is a 2013 book by American environmental historian Kate Brown. The book is a comparative history of the cities of Richland, in the northwest United States adjacent to the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Site plutonium production area, and Ozersk, in Russia's southern Ural mountain region.[1] These two cities were home to the world's first plutonium production sites, and in Plutopia Brown charts the environmental and social impacts of those sites on the residents of and the environment surrounding the two cities.[2][3] Brown argues that the demands of plutonium production – both the danger of the physical process and the secrecy required in the Cold War context – led both US and Soviet officials to create "Plutopias," ideal communities to placate resident families in exchange for their cooperation and control over their bodies. This entailed creating significant state-run welfare programs along with high levels of consumerism in both places. However, each city witnessed what Brown terms "slow-motion disasters" via the slow, and usually controlled, release of high levels of radiation into their surrounding environments.[4][5]
^Gordin, Michael D. (2014). "Reviewed Work: Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown". Slavic Review. 73 (1): 156–158. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.73.1.0156. JSTOR 10.5612/slavicreview.73.1.0156. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
^PLUTOPIA | Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
^Reichman, Henry (2016-01-02). "Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters". Peace Review. 28 (1): 132–135. doi:10.1080/10402659.2015.1130418. ISSN 1040-2659. S2CID 147584094.
^"Kate Brown: Nuclear "Plutopias" the Largest Welfare Program in American History (INTERVIEW) | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
^Zasky, Jason. "Plutopia - Kate Brown - A tale of two cities that produced plutonium, environmental disaster". failuremag.com. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
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