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03183aam a22003978i 4500 001 413BD438346E11EB831ACDE824ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201202011540 008 200306r20202019meu db 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020010951 020 $a 1432881108 020 $a 9781432881108 035 $a (OCoLC)1143823537 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BKL $d ZGD $d IWB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-un--- 050 00 $a TK1362.U38 $b H54 2020 082 00 $a 363.17/99094777 $2 23 100 1 $a Higginbotham, Adam, $e author. 245 10 $a Midnight in Chernobyl : $b the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster $h [large print] / $c by Adam Higginbotham. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 2007 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 1009 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. 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 Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful nonfiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Midnight in Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl�, Ukraine, 1986. 650 0 $a Nuclear power plants $x Accidents $z Chornobyl�. $z Chornobyl�. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064042.0 952 $l BWPD851 $d 20210714014729.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20201202013202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=413BD438346E11EB831ACDE824ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search