Chernobyl

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 ''An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics'' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens ''As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read'' - Viv Groskop, Observer The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor''s fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories