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NUCLEAR RUSSIA - PAUL JOSEPHSON KARTONIERT (TB)

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age  Paul Josephson
describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR  the enthusiastic pursuit of military and
peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union 
and the ongoing  self-proclaimed 'renaissance' of nuclear power in Russia in the 21st century.
At the height of their power  the Soviets commanded 39 000 nuclear warheads  yet claimed to be
servants of the 'peaceful atom' - which they also pursued avidly. This book examines both
military and peaceful Soviet and post-Soviet nuclear programs for the long durée - before the
war  during the Cold War  and in Russia to the present - whilst also grappling with the
political and ideological importance of nuclear technologies  the associated economic goals 
the social and environmental costs  and the cultural embrace of nuclear power. Nuclear Russia
probes the juncture of history of science and technology  political and cultural history  and
environmental history. It considers the atom in Russian society as a reflection of Leninist
technological utopianism  Cold War imperatives  scientific hubris  public acceptance  and a
state desire to conquer nature. Furthermore the book examines the vital - and perhaps
unexpected - significance of ethnicity and gender in nuclear history by looking at how Kazakhs
and Nenets lost their homelands and their health in Russia in the wake of nuclear testing  as
well as the surprising sexualization of the taming of the female atom in the Russian 'Miss
Atom' contests that commenced in the 21st century.

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