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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy (Paperback 2019)
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- Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy (Paperback 2019)
- Age Level
- Adults
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- Size
- 129 x 24 x 198 cm
- Series
- Chernobyl
- Date Published
- 31 Jan 2019
- ISBN-10
- 0141988355
- EAN
- 9780141988351
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- Penguin 01 Edition
- ISBN
- 9780141988351
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- Subject Area
- Economic Sociology
- Publication Name
- Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Subject
- Geography & Geosciences, History
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 198mm
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- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 315g
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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. While it is clear that the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, Plokhy shows how the deeper roots of Chernobyl lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable communist ideology and the dysfunctional managerial and economic systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster. A poignant, fast paced account of the drama of heroes, perpetrators, and victims, Chernobyl is the definitive history of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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Economic Sociology
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
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Paperback
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English
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Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
315g
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