Chernobyl
Subtitle: the history of a nuclear catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781541617094; 9781541617087
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986; Accidents; Nuclear energy; Nuclear power plants; Political aspects
Description: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wormwood; title: Inferno; title: Atop the volcano; title: Invisible enemy; title: Reckoning; title: New day.