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Red Atom : Russias Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian and East European StudiesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (365 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978473
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Red AtomDDC classification:
  • 333.7/924/0947
LOC classification:
  • TK9085 .J67 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Acknowledgment -- Prologue: Atomic-Powered Communism -- Chapter 1. The Reactor in the Garden -- Chapter 2. Nuclear Breeders: Technological Determinism -- Chapter 3. Nuclear Concrete -- Chapter 4. Nuclear Engines: Technology as Panacea -- Chapter 5. Nuclear Chickens: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Ionizing Radiation -- Chapter 6. A Stellar Promise: The Display Value of Fusion Power -- Chapter 7. Reactors for the Republics -- Chapter 8. Nuclear Explosions: Peaceful and Otherwise -- Epilogue: Atomic-Powered Communism Reconsidered -- Appendix: Table 1-24 -- About the Sources -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Reveals the history and death of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power through exploration of both the projects and the technocratic and political elite who were dedicated to increasing state power through technology. Paul Josephson illuminates the problems that can befall any society heavily invested in large-scale technology.
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Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Acknowledgment -- Prologue: Atomic-Powered Communism -- Chapter 1. The Reactor in the Garden -- Chapter 2. Nuclear Breeders: Technological Determinism -- Chapter 3. Nuclear Concrete -- Chapter 4. Nuclear Engines: Technology as Panacea -- Chapter 5. Nuclear Chickens: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Ionizing Radiation -- Chapter 6. A Stellar Promise: The Display Value of Fusion Power -- Chapter 7. Reactors for the Republics -- Chapter 8. Nuclear Explosions: Peaceful and Otherwise -- Epilogue: Atomic-Powered Communism Reconsidered -- Appendix: Table 1-24 -- About the Sources -- Notes -- Index.

Reveals the history and death of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power through exploration of both the projects and the technocratic and political elite who were dedicated to increasing state power through technology. Paul Josephson illuminates the problems that can befall any society heavily invested in large-scale technology.

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