Manual for Survival

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Survivor’s Manual

PART I // THE ACCIDENT

Liquidators at Hospital No. 6

Physicists and Physicians

PART II // HOT SURVIVAL

Clean Hides, Dirty Water

Making Sausage of Disaster

Farms into Factories

PART III // MAN-MADE NATURE

The Swamp Dweller

The Great Chernobyl Acceleration

PART IV // POST-APOCALYPSE POLITICS

The Housekeeper

PART V // MEDICAL MYSTERIES

Primary Evidence

Declassifying Disaster

The Superpower Self-Help Initiative

Belarusian Somnambulists

The Great Awakening

PART VI // SCIENCE ACROSS THE IRON CURTAIN

Send for the Cavalry

Marie Curie’s Fingerprint

Foreign Experts

In Search of Catastrophe

Thyroid Cancer: The Canary in the Medical Mine

The Butterfly Effect

Looking for a Lost Town

Greenpeace Red Shadow

The Quiet Ukrainian

PART VII // SURVIVAL ARTISTS

Conclusion: Berry Picking into the Future

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

List of Archives and Interviews