Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By : Adam Higginbotham
Book Excerpt :
Listening length: 13 hours and 55 minutesThe definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world?s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet?s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.Chernobyl was also a key event in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and, with it, the United States? victory in the Cold War. For Moscow, it was a political and financial catastrophe as much as an environmental and scientific one. With a total cost of 18 billion rubles?at the time equivalent
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