Chernobyl : The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Paperback)

from tmph

Excellent, readable history of the personalities, science, and politics of the catastrophe involving both the Soviet Union and Ukraine by a Ukranian with mostly Ukrainian sources.

from PDCRead

I can still vividly remember the time we in the West first heard about a nuclear accident behind the Iron Curtain. Reports were appearing about a massive rise in radiation with denials from European states and a collective finger pointing to an accidental release somewhere in the USSR. At the hei...

from drmaf

Somewhat of a disappointing book. Well-written and mostly enthralling but far too much time was devoted to the politics of the Soviet Union rather than the actual catastrophe. Some of the most interesting and tragic incidents (the firemen first responders, the three divers who risked their lives ...

from m_k_m

Places the Chernobyl disaster in the wider political landscape of the late Cold War and the last years of the USSR. Leaning less on the real-life horror of the events than many other histories, Plokhy instead vividly evokes the inability of anyone involved to grasp that something so huge, so terr...