By Serhii Plokhy
ISBN-10: 1541617096
ISBN-13: 9781541617094
ISBN-10: 1549116320
ISBN-13: 9781549116322
at the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear catastrophe in background: the explosion of a reactor on the Chernobyl Nuclear energy Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout infected part the continent, and hundreds of thousands fell ill.
In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy attracts on new resources to inform the dramatic tales of the firefighters, scientists, and infantrymen who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays naked the failings of the Soviet nuclear undefined, tracing the catastrophe to the authoritarian personality of Communist celebration rule, the regime's keep watch over of clinical details, and its emphasis on monetary improvement over all else.
at the present time, the chance of one other Chernobyl looms within the mismanagement of nuclear energy within the constructing international. A relocating and definitive account, Chernobyl is usually an pressing name to action.
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
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