Chernobyl, the Forbidden Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chernobyl, the Forbidden Truth write by Alla Yaroshinska. This book was released on 1995. Chernobyl, the Forbidden Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this impassioned, shocking, and deeply personal story, Alla Yaroshinskaya, then a journalist from Zhitomir, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl power station, describes the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the bureaucratic and scientific corruption surrounding it. Despite the government's official silence, news and panic spread throughout the USSR and Europe after the horrific accident. Like others, Yaroshinskaya initially fled with her family in hopes of escaping the danger from radioactive fallout that exceeded that of Hiroshima by three hundred times. When she returned home, she discovered that people in highly contaminated areas were being resettled in ones barely less contaminated, that their serious health problems were officially denied, and that people had to eat locally grown contaminated food. Her newspaper refused to publish her stories and instead commissioned another journalist to write more reassuring accounts. Finally, Isvestia published her articles. Despite official pressure, Yaroshinskaya was nominated overwhelmingly to the new parliament in 1989. This position gained her access to classified documents known as the Kremlin's "Forty Secret Protocols". Undaunted by threats, she revealed an official cover-up, including lies about "permissible" higher radio-active levels. Her courageous campaign won her the Right Livelihood Award in 1992.
Midnight in Chernobyl
Midnight in Chernobyl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midnight in Chernobyl write by Adam Higginbotham. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Midnight in Chernobyl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. In the thirty 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 its citizens and the entire world. 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 ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a “riveting, deeply reported reconstruction” (Los Angeles Times) and a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. “The most complete and compelling history yet” (The Christian Science Monitor), Higginbotham’s “superb, enthralling, and necessarily terrifying...extraordinary” (The New York Times) book is an indelible portrait of the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.
Truth About Chernobyl
Truth About Chernobyl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth About Chernobyl write by Григорий Медведев. This book was released on 1991-05-15. Truth About Chernobyl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A countdown, beginning sixteen years before the explosion--when Medvedev was chief engineer of Reactor 5 and living in Pripyat. It moves, by years, then months, then weeks, then days, then hours, minutes, and seconds to the moment of the accident. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Voices from Chernobyl
Voices from Chernobyl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from Chernobyl write by Светлана Алексиевич. This book was released on 1999. Voices from Chernobyl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Chernobyl Record
Chernobyl Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chernobyl Record write by R.F Mould. This book was released on 2000-05-01. Chernobyl Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 had a heavy impact on life, health, and the environment. It caused agony to people in the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia and anxiety far away from these countries. The economic losses and social dislocation were severe in a region already under strain. It is now possible to make more accurate assess
