The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago

Per Högselius is Professor of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He holds a MSc in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Innovation Studies and a Docent (Habilitation) degree in History of Science and Technology. He specializes in transnational studies of energy and infrastructures in historical perspective, with a particular emphasis on East-West relations. Achim Klüppelberg is a doctoral candidate in History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He holds a BA in History and Political Science (2013) and an MA in Eastern European History (2016), both from the University of Göttingen, Germany. His studies also included a longer stay at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU). His doctoral project focuses on the on the nuclear history of the Soviet Union and its successor states. He is a member of the German Society of Historians and the Society of Historians for Eastern Europe.

1. Introduction


2. Cultural Preparation


3. Bomb Geographies


4. Incepting Peaceful Atoms


5. The First Boom Phase


6. Winning New Territories


7. Evolving Macro-Entanglements


8. The Second Boom Phase


9. Towards Energy Complexes


10. Macro-Entanglements during the Second Boom Phase


11. The Post-Chernobyl Stagnation – and the Third Boom Phase


12. Conclusion


Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index