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Plutopia was a required reading in one of my graduate history of technology classes. During the manhattan project, the united states commandeered. In plutopia, brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of richland, washington and ozersk, russiathe first two cities in the world to. An untold and profoundly important piece of cold war history, plutopia invites readers to consider the nuclear footprint left by the arms race and the enormous price of paying for it.
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