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by Adam Higginbotham

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  • Title Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
  • Author Adam Higginbotham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster
  • Date 2020-02-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781501134630 / 1501134639
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl,, Nuclear power plants - Accidents - Ukraine -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.179

About the author

Adam Higginbotham has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, and Smithsonian. He is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl, which was the winner of the William E. Colby Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. He lives with his family in New York City.

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Simon & Schuster. New. New Simon & Schuster, 2020 New Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters 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 disputeDrawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand The result is a… Read More
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