Through two decades of reporting, journalist Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story of the disaster that changed the world's perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, and our understanding of the planet's delicate ecology, while bringing down the Soviet Union's teetering economy and revealing to its population a state built upon a pillar of lies.
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