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Turning up a surprising amount of hitherto hidden material and talkative survivors, brown historyuniv. Nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great soviet and american plutonium disasters discusses the first nuclear disaster in history to have happened locally. A chernobyl guide to the future 2019, dispatches from dystopia 2015, plutopia 20, and a biography of no place 2004. Rent plutopia 1st edition 9780190233105 today, or search our site for other textbooks by kate brown. Kate brown managed to write a book that is simultaneously gripping, moving, informative, and sobering.
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