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Boston, Massachusetts : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (504 pages)
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| Disciplina |
808
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| Soggetto topico |
Korean Air Lines Incident, 1983
Conspiracy theories - Russia (Federation)
Democracy - Russia (Federation)
Rhetoric - Political aspects - Russia (Federation)
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
1-64469-734-3
1-64469-733-5
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Interviews -- Note to Readers -- Preface -- Introduction to Volume One. Image and Reality: The Declining Role of Evidence in Public Discourse -- Part One: KAL and Cracks in the Rhetorical Wall -- Route R-20—Terry Graves Illustration -- Takahashi—Novosti Satellite Map -- Ogarkov Double Loop Map—The New York Times -- 1. Did the United States Suppress Ground-to-Air Communications? -- 2. KAL 007 and the Superpowers: An International Argument -- 3. The KAL Tapes -- 4. BCAS Correspondence: “Flight 007: Was There Foul Play?” -- 5. The Need for Evaluative Criteria: Conspiracy Argument Revisited -- 6. Soviet Media Tactics and the Body Politic: Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases -- 7. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: Comparative Treatments of the KAL 007 and Iran Air Shootdowns -- 8. Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian Airbus Shootdown -- 9. “007”—Conspiracy or Accident? -- 10. Flight 007 -- 11. Carlos the Jackal Attacks RFE/RL! -- Part Two: Chernobyl, Eco-Nationalism, and Loss of Rhetorical Control -- Plaque at the entrance to the Chernobyl AES administration building (1989) -- The Original Sarcophagus (1989) -- Interior access door to the sarcophagus at Chernobyl (1989) 202 -- A Billboard at the Rovno Nuclear Station (1996) -- The New Secure Confinement (2019) -- 12. Chernobyl in the Soviet Media: Unintentional Ironies, Unprecedented Events -- 13. Redefining Glasnost in the Soviet Media: The Recontextualization of Chernobyl -- 14. Chernobyl: From the Ashes a New Society? -- 15. Nuclear Power in the USSR -- 16. Civilian Nuclear Power in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance -- 17. Soviet News Media: Uncertainty in the Throes of Change -- 18. Nuclear Power and Ecological Debates in the Soviet Press, Mid-1988 to Mid-1989 -- 19. The Final Days: The Development of Argumentative Discourse in the Soviet Union -- 20. Ukraine Nuclear Power Struggles for Survival -- 21. Nonrational Assessment of Risk and the Development of Civilian Nuclear Power -- 22. Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Nuclear Safety -- 23. Soviet Bureaucracy and Nuclear Safety -- 24. Review of Two Books by David R. Marples -- 25. Review of Plutopia -- 26. Review of Plokhy, Chernobyl -- 7. Pseudo-Science and Potemkin-History -- 28. Confronting Climate Change: Assessing the Role of Nuclear Power -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
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