409 Pages
by
Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
409 Pages
by
Routledge
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Long before the tragedy of the 2011 nuclear disasters in Japan, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl experienced an explosion, meltdown, fire, and massive release of radioactivity. Twenty-five years later, we still know very little about the event and its aftermath. Few of the professional papers describing the aftereffects of the disaster have been translated from Russian into English or distributed... Read more
Introduction, Rosalie Bertell, Prologue: Life Weighed on Chernobyl Scales, 1. Rudnya-Ososhnya: A Deception Zone, 2. “Halt! Life Hazard!”, 3. Brainwashing in Zhitomir, 4. Voices Crying in the Parliamentary Wilderness, 5. “Top Secret: Ban Chernobyl Theme!”, 6. Crime without Punishment, 7. The Cover-Up, 8. Byzantium in the Kremlin, 9. Dissident Experts, 10. “The Monster is Huge, Massive, and Barking!”, 11. Reactor ’Round Our Neck, 12. Did Chernobyl Babies Smoke?, 13. Korosten, Luginy, and All the Rest, 14. “I Only Dipped My Finger in the Milk!”, 15. Warning Signs from the Urals, 16. Secret Records of the Kremlin, 17. The Enemy Uses Poison-Tipped Needles, 18. Mikhail Gorbachev: “You are wrong!”, 19. Guilt Established—But No Trials, 20. Cesium, Curies, and Cover-up, 21. “Curtains of Fog and Iron”, 22. Scientific Shell Game, 23. Who Stole Chernobyl’s Green Meadows?, Epilogue
Biography
Alla Yaroshinskaya
