The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9633866474
• Thông tin xuất bản: Central European University Press, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 460377
• Chủ đề: 1. history of engineering and technology; 2. nuclear power and engineering; 3. Soviet Union; 4. thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBD Historical states, empires, territories and regions: Europe::1QBDR USSR, Soviet Union; 5. thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology; 6. thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THK Nuclear power and engineering

Tóm tắt

The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the spatial dimensions of the nuclear industry as a point of departure. The key concept is that of the archipelago - a network of nuclear facilities spread throughout the Soviet territory, but mutually reliant on each other and densely connected. The story traces the emergence of nuclear science and technology for military and civilian purposes through to the post-Soviet Russian nuclear corporations as providers of resources and technology. The book explains how nuclear developments in the Soviet Union interacted with processes of environmental and landscape change. The spatial lens offers an analytically fruitful and pedagogically stimulating way to comprehend the nuclear histories of the Soviet Union and its successor states.