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The essays in this book examine the arguments and rhetoric used by the United States and the USSR following two catastrophes that impacted both countries, as blame is cast and consequences are debated. In this environment, it was perhaps inevitable that conspiracy theories would arise, especially about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Those theories are examined, resulting in at least one method for addressing conspiracy arguments. In the case of Chernobyl, the disaster ruptured the "social compact" between the Soviet government and the people; efforts to overcome the resulting disillusionment quickly became the focus of state efforts.
Contents
Table of Contents AcknowledgementsList of Interviews and Personal CommunicationsNote to ReadersPrefaceIntroduction to Volume One. Image and Reality: The Declining Role of Evidence in Public DiscoursePart One: Kal and Cracks in the Rhetorical WallRoute R-20-Terry Graves IllustrationTakahashi-Novosti Satellite MapOgarkov Double Loop Map-The New York TimesMap Credits1. Did the United States Suppress Ground-to-Air Communications?2. KAL 007 and the Superpowers: An International Argument3. The KAL Tapes4. BCAS Correspondence: "Flight 007: Was There Foul Play?"5. The Need for Evaluative Criteria: Conspiracy Argument Revisited6. Soviet Media Tactics and the Body Politic: Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases7. When the Shoe Is on the Other Foot: Comparative Treatments of the KAL 007 and Iran Air Shootdowns8. Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian Airbus Shootdown9. "007"-Conspiracy or Accident?10. Flight 00711. Carlos the Jackal Attacks RFE/RL!Part Two: Chernobyl, Eco-Nationalism, and Loss of Rhetorical ControlThe Original Sarcophagus (1989)The Interior Access Door to Unit 4- (1989)A Billboard at the Rovno Nuclear Station (1996)New Secure Confinement (2019)Photo Credits12. Chernobyl in the Soviet Media: Unintentional Ironies, Unprecedented Events13. Redefining Glasnost in the Soviet Media: The Recontextualization of Chernobyl14. Chernobyl: From the Ashes a New Society?15. Nuclear Power in the USSR16. Civilian Nuclear Power in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance17. Soviet News Media: Uncertainty in the Throes of Change18. Nuclear Power and Ecological Debates in the Soviet Press, Mid-1988 to Mid-198919. The Final Days: The Development of Argumentative Discourse in the Soviet Union20. Ukraine Nuclear Power Struggles for Survival21. Nonrational Assessment of Risk and the Development of Civilian Nuclear Power22. Ukraine, Russia, and the Question of Nuclear Safety23. Soviet Bureaucracy and Nuclear Safety24. Review of Two Books by David R. Marples25. Review of Plutopia26. Review of Plokhy, Chernobyl27. Pseudo-Science and Potemkin-History28. Confronting Climate Change: Assessing the Role of Nuclear Power AfterwordIndexBibliography
