Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama
Much is still unknown about the Chernobyl accident, mostly because of all the cover-up that has been done to keep the details of the event hidden from the world. But the effects of that event still haunt many today. Even the site of Chernobyl lingers with remnants of nuclear contamination.
Some writers tried to shed light on Chernobyl but details of the actual event – the backstory, the response, and the cleanup – were scant until several people came out with books that tackled the underlying sequence of events that surrounded Chernobyl.
Over the years, a few chronicles of the disaster by Soviet writers have reached Western readers, most notably “The Truth About Chernobyl,” by Grigori Medvedev, a former engineer at the plant, published in 1991. But aside from Piers…
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