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Kate Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several prize-winning histories, including <i>Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters</i> (Oxford 2013). Her latest book <i>Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future</i> (Norton 2019), translated into six languages, won the Marshall Shulman and Reginald Zelnik Prizes for the best book in East European History, plus the Silver Medal for Laura Shannon Book Prize. <i>Manual for Survival</i> was also a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pushkin House Award and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage.<br/><br/>This talk is part of the Boston College Lowell Humanities Series and is cosponsored by the Boston College History Department and The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.

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