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of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, nuclear weapons have become a neglected topic on the agenda in a world shaped by reemerging nationalisms and
increasing uncertainty.
By bringing together researchers across disciplines for in-depth investigations into the complex entanglements of the nuclear past and present,
this volume offers a beginning in recalibrating our thinking around nuclear
legacies, which all too often finds itself entrenched in Cold War paradigms.
Notes
1. Ales’ Adamovic, “Nicht nur ein AKW. Ein Brief an Michail S. Gorbačev,”
Osteuropa, 56, H.4 (2006): 19–22.
2. Ulrich Beck, “Der anthropologische Schock. Tschernobyl und die Konturen der
Risikogesellschaft,” Merkur, 40, 8 (1986): 653–663.
3. Melanie Arndt, “Einleitung. Ökologie und Zivilgesellschaft,” Politik und
Gesellschaft, ed. Melanie Arndt, 10–24, here: 16–17 (Berlin: Links, 2016).
4. Astrid Sahm, “Atomenergie nach Černobyl und Fukushima,” Osteuropa, 63, 7
(2013): 101–121; Tatjana Kasperski, “Nation versus Gedächtnis. Die Nationalisierung kollektiver Vorstellungen über Tschernobyl als Faktor zum Vergessen der
Katastrophe,” Politik und Gesellschaft, ed. Melanie Arndt, 152–181 (Berlin: Links,
2016).
5. Klaus Gestwa, “Von der Perestroika zur Katastroika. Michail Gorbatschow und
der Zerfall der Sowjetunion,” Einsichten und Perspektiven, 1 (2016): 22–33; 2 (2016):
4–25.
6. These include Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear. Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014); Kate Brown, Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic
Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Paul R. Josephson, Red Atom: Russia’s Nuclear Power Program
From Stalin to Today (New York, NY: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000); Arkadii
Kruglov, The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry, trans. Andrei Lokhov (London:
Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2002).
7. For a recent study of visibility of radioactive traces for the case of the Trinity test,
see: Eva Castringius, Der Trinity-Index. Radioaktive Kontamination und ihre fotografische Sichtbarkeit. PhD Thesis, University of Fine Arts, Hamburg (HFBK), 2019.
8. A.A. Burykin, A.A. Iskra, V.P. Karamushka, “Radiation legacy of the USSR
enterprises for mining, milling and processing of uranium ores. Conservation,
decommissioning ad environmental rehabilitation,” in: IAEA (International Atomic
Energy Agency) International Conference on Radiation Legacy of the 20th Century. Environmental Restoration, 244–256; Gavin M. Mudd, “Critical review of in situ
leach uranium mining. 2. Soviet block and Asia,” Environmental Geology, 41 (2001):
404–416; Anton Khlopkov and Valeriya Chekina, Governing Uranium in Russia,
DIIS Report 19, Copenhagen, 2014.
9. Thomas B. Cochran and Robert Standish Norris, Russian/Soviet Nuclear Warhead
Production (Washington, DC: Natural Resources Defence Council, 1993), 10; Anton
Khlopkov and Valeriya Chekina, Governing Uranium in Russia, DIIS Report 19,
Copenhagen, 2014.
10. V.N. Mikhailov, I.A. Andryshin, V.V. Bogdan, S.A. Vashchinkin, S.A. Zelentsov,
G.E. Zolutkin, V.M. Karimov, V.V. Kirichenko, A.M. Matushchenko, Y.A. Silkin,
V.G. Strukov, K.V. Kharitinov, A.K. Tchernyshev, G.A. Tsyrkov, M.P. Shumaev,
USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990 (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, The Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation: Moscow, 1996).
of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, nuclear weapons have become a neglected topic on the agenda in a world shaped by reemerging nationalisms and
increasing uncertainty.
By bringing together researchers across disciplines for in-depth investigations into the complex entanglements of the nuclear past and present,
this volume offers a beginning in recalibrating our thinking around nuclear
legacies, which all too often finds itself entrenched in Cold War paradigms.
Notes
1. Ales’ Adamovic, “Nicht nur ein AKW. Ein Brief an Michail S. Gorbačev,”
Osteuropa, 56, H.4 (2006): 19–22.
2. Ulrich Beck, “Der anthropologische Schock. Tschernobyl und die Konturen der
Risikogesellschaft,” Merkur, 40, 8 (1986): 653–663.
3. Melanie Arndt, “Einleitung. Ökologie und Zivilgesellschaft,” Politik und
Gesellschaft, ed. Melanie Arndt, 10–24, here: 16–17 (Berlin: Links, 2016).
4. Astrid Sahm, “Atomenergie nach Černobyl und Fukushima,” Osteuropa, 63, 7
(2013): 101–121; Tatjana Kasperski, “Nation versus Gedächtnis. Die Nationalisierung kollektiver Vorstellungen über Tschernobyl als Faktor zum Vergessen der
Katastrophe,” Politik und Gesellschaft, ed. Melanie Arndt, 152–181 (Berlin: Links,
2016).
5. Klaus Gestwa, “Von der Perestroika zur Katastroika. Michail Gorbatschow und
der Zerfall der Sowjetunion,” Einsichten und Perspektiven, 1 (2016): 22–33; 2 (2016):
4–25.
6. These include Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear. Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014); Kate Brown, Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic
Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Paul R. Josephson, Red Atom: Russia’s Nuclear Power Program
From Stalin to Today (New York, NY: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000); Arkadii
Kruglov, The History of the Soviet Atomic Industry, trans. Andrei Lokhov (London:
Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2002).
7. For a recent study of visibility of radioactive traces for the case of the Trinity test,
see: Eva Castringius, Der Trinity-Index. Radioaktive Kontamination und ihre fotografische Sichtbarkeit. PhD Thesis, University of Fine Arts, Hamburg (HFBK), 2019.
8. A.A. Burykin, A.A. Iskra, V.P. Karamushka, “Radiation legacy of the USSR
enterprises for mining, milling and processing of uranium ores. Conservation,
decommissioning ad environmental rehabilitation,” in: IAEA (International Atomic
Energy Agency) International Conference on Radiation Legacy of the 20th Century. Environmental Restoration, 244–256; Gavin M. Mudd, “Critical review of in situ
leach uranium mining. 2. Soviet block and Asia,” Environmental Geology, 41 (2001):
404–416; Anton Khlopkov and Valeriya Chekina, Governing Uranium in Russia,
DIIS Report 19, Copenhagen, 2014.
9. Thomas B. Cochran and Robert Standish Norris, Russian/Soviet Nuclear Warhead
Production (Washington, DC: Natural Resources Defence Council, 1993), 10; Anton
Khlopkov and Valeriya Chekina, Governing Uranium in Russia, DIIS Report 19,
Copenhagen, 2014.
10. V.N. Mikhailov, I.A. Andryshin, V.V. Bogdan, S.A. Vashchinkin, S.A. Zelentsov,
G.E. Zolutkin, V.M. Karimov, V.V. Kirichenko, A.M. Matushchenko, Y.A. Silkin,
V.G. Strukov, K.V. Kharitinov, A.K. Tchernyshev, G.A. Tsyrkov, M.P. Shumaev,
USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 1949 through 1990 (Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, The Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation: Moscow, 1996).