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Midnight in Chernobyl, the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, Adam Higginbotham

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Midnight in Chernobyl, the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, Adam Higginbotham
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
portraitsmapsillustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Midnight in Chernobyl
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Adam Higginbotham
Sub title
the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster
Summary
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand
Target audience
adult

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