Midnight In Chernobyl [The Untold Story Of The Worlds Greatest Nuclear Disaster] - Adam Higginbotham

Adam Higginbotham

Category: History

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Tags: History, Documentary, Misc. Non-fiction

Published By : Random House Audiobooks, Length : 13 Hrs 55 Mins, Release Date : February 14, 2019, The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research., Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering historys worst nuclear disaster. In the 30 years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens but all of humanity. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda and misinformation, has long remained in dispute., Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than 10 years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs an