Red Atom

Russia's Nuclear Power from Stalin to Today

Paul R. Josephson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

1999
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7167-3044-6 (ISBN)

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This work is a study of Soviet nuclear enterprise based on research conducted within that establishment. It places all of the well-known events of Soviet nuclear history within a story of heroes and villains who were guilty of nuclear enthusiasm.

This work is a study of Soviet nuclear enterprise based on research conducted within that establishment. It places all of the well-known events of Soviet nuclear history - its bomb projects, nuclear icebreakers, radioactive waste dumps and Chernobyl - within a story of heroes and villains who were guilty of nuclear enthusiasm.

Atomic powered communism; the reactor in the garden; nuclear breeders - technological determinism; nuclear concete - the Soviet ethos of mass production; nuclear chickens - technology as panacea; a stellar promise - the display value of fusion power; reactors for the republics; nuclear explosions, peaceful and otherwise; epilogue - atomic powered communism reconsidered.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.12.2000
Zusatzinfo	map, portraits
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 242 mm
Gewicht	708 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-7167-3044-8 / 0716730448
ISBN-13	978-0-7167-3044-6 / 9780716730446
Zustand	Neuware