Midnight in Chernobyl the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster
"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the mo...
| Main Author: | Higginbotham, Adam (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi :
Simon & Schuster,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Birth of a city. The Soviet Prometheus
- Alpha, beta, gamma
- Friday, April 25, 5:00 p.m., Pripyat
- Secrets of the peaceful atom
- Friday, April 25, 11:55 p.m., Unit Control Room Number Four
- Saturday, April 26, 1:28 a.m., Paramilitary Fire Station Number Two
- Saturday, 1:30 a.m., Kiev ; Saturday, 6:15 a.m., Pripyat
- Sunday, April 27, Pripyat
- Part 2. Death of an empire. The cloud
- The China Syndrome
- The battle of Chernobyl
- Inside Hospital Number Six
- The liquidators
- The investigation
- The sarcophagus
- The forbidden zone
- The trial
- The elephant's foot
- A tomb for Valery Khodemchuk.