Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future

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Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future

Title remainder

a Chernobyl guide to the future

Statement of responsibility

Kate Brown

Title variation

Chernobyl guide to the future

Creator

• Brown, Kate, (Kathryn L)

Author

• Brown, Kate, (Kathryn L)

Subject

• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobylʹ, Ukraine : 1986)
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Political aspects
• Ionizing radiation -- Health aspects
• Ionizing radiation -- Health aspects
• 1986
• Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
• Ukraine
• Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ
• Radioactive pollution
• Buddhism and politics

Language

eng

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."--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.17/99094777

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

TD196.R3

LC item number

B785 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography