Midnight in Chernobyl

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One of the 2019 Audiofile’s Best AudioBook!

Chernonobile nuclear power plant disaster based on original reporting and new archial research.

On April 25, 1986, Chernobyl had a significant turn in world history. The disaster not only changed the perception of the world of nuclear power and science, which gave birth to it, but also our understanding about the delicate ecology of the planet. With images of homes and playgrounds beyond the 30 -kilometer exclusion area, the corpse of contaminated trucks and helicopters, lact the field with black rain, the incident fixed for the perception of radiation as an invisible killer.

Chernobyl was also an important 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 destruction, as an environmental and scientist. With a total cost of 18 billion rubles – at that time equal to $ 18 billion – Chernobyl already insolvented an economy and a state was built on a column of lies for its population.

The entire story of the events that started that night, VI Lenin Nuclear Power Plant has never been told in the control room of reactor number four of the Nuclear Power Plant – so far. Through two decades of reporting, the first interview with new archival information, and witnesses, journalist Adam Higinbotham, told full dramatic story, including Alexander Akimov and Anatoli Dietlov, which represented the best and worst of Soviet life; Gupt policemen for the motherland, internal passports, food lines and a disappearance of the brave self-sacrifice have disappeared the world.

The midnight in Chernobyl, award-qualified nonfiction that reads like science-fi, not only reflects the final epic struggle of a dying empire, but is also a story of individual bravery and desperate, simple technical reform story of joining the army against a new kind of enemy.