Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
SKU: 9780141988351 • Barcode: 9780141988351

Chernobyl

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: European history
  • Genre / subject: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
  • Author: Serhii Plokhy
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy is a history book. A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian.

On the morning of 26 April 1986. Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep.

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