If you know little about what happened in Chernobyl on that night, I recommend this title.
Please try your request again later. Thus as Higginbotham describes the unfolding of the disaster in a blow by blow account, we can feel their dismay as their lives and their world come apart.
So—what is to be learned in this latest recounting of the disaster?
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It had far-reaching effects for the health of the people throughout Asia and Europe, as well as political consequences for the former USSR.
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And his human interest stories place a human face on the tragedy.Everyone knows that Chernobyl was a horrible nuclear accident that poisoned the entire area around the reactor.
Had you asked me a week ago what I know about Chernobyl I'd have been able to muster only one short phrase: "A nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union".
Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. As I've gotten older I have become more interested in reading about historical events that took place either before I was born or when I was too young to fully appreciate the significanThe Chernobyl disaster is an event that has fascinated me over the past couple of decades.
The Chernobyl disaster was, in a way, the straw that broke the camels back with regards to the USSR’s economic viability as well asI can appreciate the effort that went into collecting sufficient research and organizing those documents into a coherent narrative.
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Of all the sorry spectacles that characterized the fearful 45-year interlude called the Cold War, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has to be one of the worst.
This book is excellent!“a society where the cult of science had supplanted religion, the nuclear chiefs were among its most sanctified icons—pillars of the Soviet state. We learn how the idea of Chernobyl was born and we are taken through the very beginnings of the construction of both the reactors and the town in Pripyat that would house the tens of thousands of workers and their families.
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Tears fell on many occasions. Surreal and demoralizing, Midnight in Chernobyl tells the true story of the worst nuclear accident in the history of the world.
Vermont Business Magazine Adam Higginbotham has won the 2020 William E Colby Award for his book, “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.”Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, presents the award, now in its 21st year, annually to a first solo work of fiction or nonfiction that has made a major contribution to the understanding of … So if I wanted to verify a source I couldn’t. "Surreal and demoralizing, Midnight in Chernobyl tells the true story of the worst nuclear accident in the history of the world.
This is one of the best non-fiction books I've read and most likely the best on the subject of Chernobyl accident.
Painstakingly researched and written in an engaging style, this was an enthralling and horrifying account of the disaster written through the eyes of the many people involved at all levels.
This statement by one of the officers from the Department of Internal Affairs of the former USSR sums it up.
We learn about those working at the plant that fateful night, their backgrounds, their daily lives, their families and friends. It’s a great read. He wrote in the official log on that horrible morning, about six hours after the explosion, at 7:07 a.m., that" .