this place is not a place of honor

ari - he/they - the danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[thewavesbrokeontheshore]

plus:

[thereforealiar]

more fics should include plot-relevant cases of acute radiation sickness. nothing wrong with me btw.

[spikedru]

there are too many movies. lets start by getting rid of christopher nolan

[azed5]

I’m hosting a powerpoint party for my birthday next month and I think I’m gonna do a presentation on my critiques of oppenheimer. excited to exorcise some demons.

[space-pics]

Ukraine’s Pripyat River is Like a Work of Art From Space

[azed5]

I’m hosting a powerpoint party for my birthday next month and I think I’m gonna do a presentation on my critiques of oppenheimer. excited to exorcise some demons.

[onlinebeast]

And they say brunettes with dimples can’t stabilize the reactor core 😏

[onlinebeast]

Uh Oh

[rainbow-dash-the-ultimate]

I got a bad feeling about this

[onlinebeast]

You and me both Rainbow Dash

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[cannibalchicken]

[azed5]

thinking abt the beautiful and frightening months-long period in late 2023 early 2024 where people would find out I was into atomic history and go oh hey! did you like oppenheimer? and I’d have to very earnestly say like. is this a conversation you are ready to have right now. it will take at least 15 minutes.

[thereforealiar]

nonfiction nuclear history recs for fans of the half life of valery k

hi there! as someone who reads a lot about nuclear history, I wanted to give some recommendations for people who read valery k and though "damn that's crazy, I want to learn more!"

Books about the Kyshtym Disaster (Historical Basis for Valery K): - Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy - This is my favorite book about nuclear disasters! It's a wonderful introduction to the subject, and has a whole chapter on Kyshtym. - Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America by Joshua Frank - This book is mostly about Hanford (the "equivalent" of Mayak in the US) and it's not my favorite, but it does have a good chapter on Kyshtym that I really enjoyed reading post-valery k - Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown - A book that compares compares Chelyabinsk and Richland (town associated with Hanford) as residential areas. Disclaimer that I have not yet read this book, but it was recommended to me by a trusted source.

Books about Chernobyl: - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - THE definitive nuclear history book imho. It's beautiful, it's empathetic, and a lot of it served as the basis for HBO's Chernobyl. Plus, imo a lot of the oral histories about rural life in the exclusion zone match up w/ valery k's village plotline. Svetlana Alexievich the nobel prize winner that you are... - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham - This is a really popular Chernobyl book, though I never finished reading it and prefer Alexievich and Plokhy's work. It has some great maps though. Seriously, I adore the maps. They're amazing.

[azed5]

“Soviet propagandists and international agencies honed a public information campaign that repeatedly insisted the danger was over, the Chernobyl chapter was closed — but that is not quite right. Chernobyl was not a single event, but was instead a point on a larger continuum… Calling Chernobyl an ‘accident’ is a broom that sweeps away the larger story. Conceiving of the events that contaminated the Pripyat marshes as discrete occurrences blurs the fact that they are connected. Instead of an accident, Chernobyl might better be conceived of as an acceleration on a timeline of destruction, or as an exclamation point in a chain of toxic exposures that restructured the landscape, bodies, and politics.”

– Kate Brown, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (2019)

[mizuthe-cat]

it’s always “I understand why you have an autism diagnosis now” and not “thank you for explaining the entirety of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to me, I really enjoyed hearing about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster”

[kaijuerotica]

i just really feel like if i was exposed to high levels of radiation that i could withstand it. like i know it kills people but i would simply withstand it

[azed5]

Chernobyl Unit Four, reactor diagram from Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (2019)