While many transnational histories of the Nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the Great Plutonium Disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union.
To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities.
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two Cities in the world to produce plutonium.
While many transnational histories of the Nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the Great Plutonium Disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union