Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster Audiobook (Free)

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Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account from the Chernobyl nuclear power place disaster—and a robust investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the real story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.

Early in on the subject of Midnight in Chernobyl: THE STORYPLOT of the World’s Best Nuclear Disaster the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor NUMBER 4 from the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl is becoming lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for the dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can occur when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the whole planet. But the real story from the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, provides long continued to be in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews carried out over the course of a lot more than ten years, aswell as words, unpublished memoirs, and paperwork from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham offers written a harrowing and persuasive narrative which provides the disaster to life through the eye of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The effect is usually a masterful non-fiction thriller, as well as the definitive account of an event that changed background: a tale that is more technical, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible family portrait of 1 of the fantastic disasters from the twentieth century, of individual resilience and ingenuity, as well as the lessons discovered when mankind seeks to flex the natural globe to his will—lessons which, when confronted with climate switch and other threats, remain not only vital but required.