03501cam a2200325 4500 759538730 TxAuBib 20191204120000.0 181105s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018052642 9780393652512 hbk. $27.95 0393652513 hbk. $27.95 (OCoLC)1037807440 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF TOH JAS IEB IK2 UAP IUK YDX VP@ ILC BDP DAC Y38 TXSCH TxGR TxAuBib Brown, Kate, author, (Kathryn L.) Manual for survival [Book] : a Chernobyl guide to the future / Kate Brown. Chernobyl guide to the future. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019] 420 pages : map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-398) and index. Introduction: The survivor's manual -- The accident. Liquidators at Hospital No. 6 ; Evacuees ; Rainmakers ; Operators ; Ukrainians ; Physicists and physicians -- Hot survival. Woolly truths ; Clean hides, dirty water ; Making sausage of disaster ; Farms into factories -- Man-made nature. The swamp dweller ; The great Chernobyl acceleration -- Post-apocalypse politics. The housekeeper ; KGB suspicions -- Medical mysteries. Primary evidence ; Declassifying disaster ; The superpower self-help initiative ; Belarusian somnambulists ; The great awakening -- Science across the Iron Curtain. Send for the cavalry ; Marie Curie's fingerprint ; Foreign experts ; In search of catastrophe ; Thyroid cancer : the canary in the medical mine ; The butterfly effect ; Looking for a lost town ; Greenpeace red shadow ; The quiet Ukrainian -- Survival artists. The Pietà ; Bare life -- Conclusion: Berry picking into the future. "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20191204. Radioactive pollution Ukraine. Ionizing radiation Health aspects. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 Environmental aspects. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 Political aspects. RV8