Midnight in Chernobyl

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Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and an investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Higginbotham has written a narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. --From publisher description