New nuclear security | Kate Brown & Olha Martynyuk

«New nuclear security» of Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kate Brown and Professor at the NTU «Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute» Olha Martynyuk.
Kate and Olha will discuss nuclear security issues as they have unfolded in Ukraine in the last four weeks.
Kate Brown is the author of several prize-winning histories, including «Plutopia: Nuclear Families», «Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters» (Oxford 2013). Her latest book, «Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future» (Norton 2019), translated into nine languages, won the silver medal for the Laura Shannon Prize, and the Reginald Zelnik and Marshall D. Shulman Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Olha Martynyuk is also a scholar-at-risk fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She defended her dissertation on the history of Russian Nationalism in early XX century Ukraine. She assisted Professor Kate Brown on her project «Manual for Survival: Chornobyl's Guide to the Future» and translated the book into Ukrainian.
00:00 Start and intro
00:55 How do you feel about what is happening now?
09:15 Different strategies of spinning the story of Chornobyl catastrophe
14:55 Ukraine as a nuclear testing site (ground)
22:50 Did legitimacy issues also happen with international organizations?
31:40 Decentralization of nuclear power
33:40 Nuclear safety from the military perspective
38:00 Are there any people who tried to change the nuclear agenda?
46:00 About the book
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