Antinuclear

Dismantle Nuclear Bombs and Reactors – read “Plutopia”

Enough of this century of dread. Nuclear waste is here to stay, but the bombs and reactors can be dismantled. Shut it all down before the centennial of the Trinity Nuclear Bomb Test at Alomogordo, July 16, 1945

Plutopia: Interview with Kate Brown on Talking Stick TV (transcript), Nuclear Free by 2045 29 Apr 15 

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Mike McCormick interviews author Kate Brown on Talking Stick TV
January 18, 2014

Do we all live in Plutopia? This is the disturbing question implied by Kate Brown’s book. By describing the towns where Americans and Soviets made plutonium for their nuclear weapons, she raises troubling questions about how the project influenced all urban design and social structures of the post-nuclear world. We are all participants in the plutonium economy. She says toward the end of this interview, “… this epitomizes a lot of shifts we find in American society in the post-war years… making these kinds of exchange, of body rights, rights over one’s body, and civil rights and freedoms for consumer rights and financial security, and national security made sense to a lot of Americans, not just people in Richland.”

If you can’t find the time to read the whole book, this interview serves as the next best thing. It was so good that I realized a transcript of it could serve as a comprehensive journal article that summarizes all the research that went into the book. I found a way to download the terribly inaccurate automated subtitles that Youtube produces, then transformed them into an proper transcript……..http://nf2045.blogspot.jp/2015/04/plutopia-interview-with-kate-brown-on.html

April 30, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized