Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Hardcover
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist
One of NPRâ€™s Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbothamâ€™s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disasterâ€”and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s greatest disasters.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering historyâ€™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Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to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 willâ€”lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate 2019-02-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501134616

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate	2019-02-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501134616

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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