Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
Categories: History, Science & Math
Andrew Leatherbarrow tells the story of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, combining history with an account of his own trip to the abandoned exclusion zone. He explains the reactor design, the flawed safety test and the human errors that led to the explosion, and describes the heroic and often tragic response that followed. The book makes the technical causes of the accident clear for general readers.
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- Shane Parrish: “Understanding what happened at Chernobyl is about understanding the Soviet system. This book makes an excellent case that the story of Chernobyl is not a ‘bad guy’ narrative of the type we often tell. The accident was not a result of good people trapped by a few corrupt leaders.”