Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's

Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobylâ€™s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate stories.

This book, the result of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldnâ€™t work, to the surprising truth about the legendary â€˜Chernobyl diversâ€™, all the way through to the USSRâ€™s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the authorâ€™s own spontaneous journey to Ukraineâ€™s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone.

Complete with over 45 pages of photographs of modern-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station, Chernobyl 01:23:40 is a fascinating new account of the worldâ€™s worst nuclear disaster.
Country USA
Manufacturer Amazon Digital Services
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-04-26
Format Kindle eBook

Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster