Chernobyl : : the History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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Wormwood -- Inferno -- Atop the volcano -- Invisible enemy -- Reckoning -- New day.
Prologue -- Wormwood. Congress ; Road to Chernobyl ; Power plant -- Inferno. Friday night ; Explosion ; Fire ; Denial -- Atop the volcano. High commission ; Exodus ; Taming the reactor -- Invisible enemy. Deadly silence ; Exclusion zone ; China syndrome ; Counting lives -- Reckoning. War of words ; Sarcophagus ; Crime and punishment -- New day. Writer's block ; Nuclear revolt ; Independent atom ; Global shelter -- Epilogue.
An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.
April 26, 1986. Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. Plokhy tells the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, and in doing so traces the disaster to the authoritarian character of Communist party rule, the regime's control of scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. -- adapted from jacket.

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Haunting account of the nuclear disaster // I visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 2019 submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on June 18, 2020, 11:52pm Chernobyl is a gripping testimony to the perils of hubris and a poignant monument to the untold misery it imposed upon swathes of people. Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy dwells on Soviet leadership and the ubiquitous disconnects and the vast dysfunctions in the Soviet state’s affairs. This book’s outstanding narrative feature is the interpretation of the disaster in the framework of the fate of the Soviet Union. A must-read record of human fallacies and hubris.