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In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like building dams with bombs or growing radioactive crops.

Atoms for Peace. U.S. Department of Energy; Los Alamos National Laboratory; U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration; Atomic

By Jack Cohen-Joppa In Russian, her name means love. And it’s true. Lyubov Kudryashova loves the broad valley of Russia’s Tobol River, where it meanders out of Kazakhstan into the Kurgan Oblast. Her grandfather is buried there, she was born there, and she’s raised three sons there. As far as she knows, her ancestors have always lived there. There, below the southern Urals, frigid continental winters give way to spring floods that inundate a landscape of oxbow lakes, wetlands, forests and ...

The Wretched Atom  https://jacobdarwinhamblin.com/books/the-wretched-atom/ Coming in June 2021 from Oxford University Press A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that…

The Wretched Atom  https://jacobdarwinhamblin.com/books/the-wretched-atom/ Coming in June 2021 from Oxford University Press A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that…