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Higginbotham, Adam.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986.
Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- Chornobyl.
Madison Choice Award Non-Fiction Nominees 2020
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Midnight
in
Chernobyl
: the
untold
story
of the
world
's
greatest
nuclear
disaster
/ Adam Higginbotham.
by
Higginbotham, Adam.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019. 2019.
Subjects
Chernobyl
Nuclear
Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986.
Nuclear
power plants -- Accidents -- Ukraine -- Chornobyl.
Madison Choice Award Non-Fiction Nominees 2020
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Summary:
Journalist Adam Higginbotham'
s
definitive, years-in-the-making account of the
Chernobyl
nuclear
power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true
story
of one of the twentieth century'
s
greatest
disasters. 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 Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the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. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a
story
that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.
Midnight
in
Chernobyl
is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural
world
to his will--lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.
Description:
xx, 538 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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