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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Kate Brown, âPlutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disastersâ (Oxford UP, 2013)
Description: Kate Brownâs Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013)Â is a tale of two atomic citiesâone in the US (Richland, Washington) and one in the Soviet Union (Ozersk, Russia)âunited by their production of plutonium. Seeking the security they believed could come only from settlements of middle class, nuclear families, the governments of the US and the USSR created plutopias: highly-subsidized communities in hard-to-reach places that provided workers excellent salaries and handsome benefits, like first-class health care and great schools. But a dark bargain was struck in Plutopia.Th...