Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, (Paperback)

from willszal

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." These were Oppenheimer's oft-quoted recitation of the Bhagavad Gita following the first nuclear weapons test in New Mexico in 1946, Trinity. There are two kinds of death: regenerative death-such as the microbial decomposition of plant matter which...

from arubabookwoman

"We are all citizens of Plutopia." This book presents the parallel stories of Richland Washington, near the Hanford nuclear facility, and Ozersk in the former Soviet Union, the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium for the nuclear arms race. Parts I and II discuss the creation of the...

from VGAHarris

Revealing work on the carelessness of the atomic energy industry in monitoring and regulating plutonium and its destructive effects on humans, animals, and the environment. The areas in question are the Hanford facility in eastern Washington during and after WW II, and the fits and starts in the ...

from Shrike58

A somewhat rambling account of how the United States and the Soviet Union both managed to create planned communities that embodied the apparent public virtues (and the actual social prejudices) of their respective societies, which at the same time put a public relations band-aid on the running so...

from zmagic69

If you are going to write a non fiction book you should have real passion for the subject not just an axe to grind. I bought this book hoping to learn more about what went on at Hanford, how plutonium was manufactured, as well as the accidents that took place. Instead you get a book written by so...