TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Kate
TI  - Manual for survival: a Chernobyl guide to the future
SN  - 9780393652512
AV  - TD196.R3 
U1  - 363.17/99094777 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, London
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Radioactive pollution
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Ionizing radiation
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Bosch Fellow in Public Policy
KW  - Class of Spring 2017
KW  - Written at the Academy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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."--
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/tib-ub-hannover/1662983441.pdf
ER  -