BooksDirect

Description - Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy

On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout.

In Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws on recently opened archives to recreate these events in all their drama, telling the stories of the scientists, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear nightmare. While the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, he shows how its deeper roots lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the ingrained flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable ideology and the dysfunctional systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster.

A moment by moment account of the heroes, perpetrators and victims of a tragedy, Chernobyl is the first full account of a gripping, unforgettable Cold War story.

Buy Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.

A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Paperback , Jan '19
20% OFF!
RRP: $19.99 $15.99
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Paperback , Oct '22
20% OFF!
RRP: $32.99 $26.39
Lost Kingdom
Paperback , Sep '18
20% OFF!
RRP: $22.99 $18.39
Gates of Europe
Paperback , Dec '16
20% OFF!
RRP: $24.99 $19.99
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
Paperback , Aug '23
20% OFF!
RRP: $26.99 $21.59