Midnight in Chernobyl the story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster
From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Timesbestselling "account that reads almost like the script for a movie" (The Wall Street Journal) -- a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history's worst nuclear disas...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Audio,
2019.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Timesbestselling "account that reads almost like the script for a movie" (The Wall Street Journal) -- a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history's worst nuclear disasters. 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 dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed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. |
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| Item Description: | Unabridged. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (17 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: | 13:55:54 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 391888 KB). |
| ISBN: | 9781508278511 |
