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Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.).
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Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine -- History.
Ionizing radiation -- Health aspects.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects -- History.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Political aspects -- History.
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Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.).
Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine -- History.
Ionizing radiation -- Health aspects.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects -- History.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Political aspects -- History.
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Manual for survival : an
environmental
history
of the
Chernobyl
disaster / Kate Brown.
by
Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.).
W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Call #:
363.1799094 B878m
Subjects
Radioactive pollution
--
Ukraine
--
History
.
Ionizing radiation
--
Health
aspects
.
Chernobyl
Nuclear
Accident
,
Chornobylʹ
,
Ukraine
,
1986
--
Environmental
aspects
--
History
.
Chernobyl
Nuclear
Accident
,
Chornobylʹ
,
Ukraine
,
1986
--
Political
aspects
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780393357769 (trade paperback)
Alternate title:
Environmental
history
of the
Chernobyl
disaster
Description:
420 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and
environmental
consequences of
nuclear
radiation in the wake of
Chernobyl
. Governments and journalists tell us that though
Chernobyl
was the worst
nuclear
disaster in
history
, a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews in
Ukraine
, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story--one in which radioactive isotypes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties. Scores of Soviet scientists, bureaucrats, and civilians documented stunning increases in cases of birth defects, child mortality, cancers, and a multitude of prosaic diseases, which they linked to
Chernobyl
. Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of massive radiation release from weapons testing during the Cold War, international scientists and diplomats tried to bury or discredit it. A haunting revelation of how political exigencies shape responses to disaster, Manual for Survival makes clear the irreversible impact on every living thing not just from
Chernobyl
, but from eight decades of radiation from
nuclear
energy and weaponry."--From publisher.
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