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“I was raised to believe that you gave everything to your government and in return your government would always provide for you,” Manzurova told me one afternoon outside an oncology ward, where she was waiting for surgery on a tumor. “Now I realize how wrong I was.”
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
“In the United States from 1950 to 2001, the overall age-adjusted incidence of cancer increased by 85 percent.”
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
“Plutopia was locally popular also because it served up an ever-expanding economy delivering a continually increasing volume of consumer goods for an endlessly rising standard of living made possible by government subsidies for select workers. Residents of plutopia displayed a fantastic faith in scientific progress and economic efficiency. Many understood their city’s universal, classless affluence as the materialization of the American dream or Communist utopia, an affirmation that their national ideology was correct. Self-assurance and confidence bred patriotism, loyalty, submission, and silence.”
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
― Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
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