From journalist Adam Higginbotham\, the Ne w York Times bestselling &ldquo\;account that reads almost like the script for a movie&rdquo\; (The Wall Street Journal)&mdash\;a powerful investiga tion into Chernobyl and how propaganda\, secrecy\, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history&rsquo\;s worst nuclear disasters.
\nEarly in the morning of April 26\, 1986\, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded\, triggering one of the 20th cent ury&rsquo\;s greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then\, Chernoby l has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand f or the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning\, for a dangerous technolog y 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.< /p>\n
Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the cour se of more than ten years\, as well as letters\, unpublished memoirs\, and documents from recently-declassified archives\, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed i t firsthand. The result is a &ldquo\;riveting\, deeply reported reconstruc tion&rdquo\; (Los Angeles Times) and a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex\, more human\, and more ter rifying than the Soviet myth.
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