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Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster
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After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political roadblocks. Efforts to gain access to the site of catastrophic radiation damage were denied, and the residents of Chernobyl were given no answers as their lives hung in the balance. Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other catastrophic nuclear incidents.
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- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Mar 17th, 2020
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780393357769
- Categories: • Russia - General• Disasters & Disaster Relief• Public Policy - Environmental Policy
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9. ”Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love" by Volodymyr Rafeyenko 10. ”Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" by Kate Brown 11. ”Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays"
Postdoc at @WoodsonUVA | writing a book about Black radicalism, antifascism, fascism, and white supremacy | Research + Education at @april_institute | she/her
@sarahmpicks Kate Brown’s Manual for Survival has a whole chapter on Soviet weather control attempts in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, esp. efforts to keep radiation clouds concentrated in Ukraine and Belarus, with nod to earlier weather control efforts during the Moscow Olympics !!
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21. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown History of the Chernobyl cleanup and radiation mitigation efforts that acts as a portrait of late Soviet capacity and dysfunction. Full of vivid specifics from attentive oral, material, and archival methods.
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9. ”Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love" by Volodymyr Rafeyenko 10. ”Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" by Kate Brown 11. ”Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays"
Postdoc at @WoodsonUVA | writing a book about Black radicalism, antifascism, fascism, and white supremacy | Research + Education at @april_institute | she/her
@sarahmpicks Kate Brown’s Manual for Survival has a whole chapter on Soviet weather control attempts in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, esp. efforts to keep radiation clouds concentrated in Ukraine and Belarus, with nod to earlier weather control efforts during the Moscow Olympics !!