Kate Brown: "The Interminable Cycles of Chernobyl's Catastrophes: War, Accident, and War Again"
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...