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I have successfully gifted/recommended this book many times since finishing it back in June. It's utterly engrossing in any format, but for gifting I'd recommend a paperback copy. There are lots of technical diagrams, photos, and a dramatis personae which serves as a handy reference for all those confusing names.
I'm not sure what's scarier, the effects of radiation or the stunning lapse in the Soviet bureaucratic process that turned a (probably) preventable error into an absolute catastrophe. Mu ...more
I'm not sure what's scarier, the effects of radiation or the stunning lapse in the Soviet bureaucratic process that turned a (probably) preventable error into an absolute catastrophe. Mu ...more
Riveting. Fascinating. Terrifying. Adam Higginbotham does an outstanding job of bringing the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to readers. He centers the book on the individuals involved in the Chernobyl power plant and the atomic city of Pripyat where they lived, as well as the various Soviet agencies involved in nuclear research and design. And the intertwining of the Communist party in all of it. He gave me enough clear information to understand nuclear reactors—the basics and designs.
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