ShelfEvident
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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction | 2019 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Kate Brown argues through archival research in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus that the official death toll from Chernobyl is a gross undercount and that Soviet and international bodies suppressed evidence of the disaster's true scale. A forensic investigation into state secrecy and radioactive contamination, shortlisted for the NBCC Award.
About the Author
Kate BrownAmerican
Kate Brown (born September 24, 1965) is an American historian and professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, renowned for her innovative non-fiction blending archival research, oral history, and literary form to explore nuclear disasters, borderlands, and environmental history. Her most notable works include Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2013), which won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge and John H. Read more →
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