Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future
Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.)2019
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The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story, one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the magnitude of this human and ecological catastrophe has been actively suppressed. Based on a decade of archival and on-the-ground research, 'Manual for Survival' is a gripping exposé of the consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover up the truth. As Brown discovers, Soviet scientists, bureaucrats, and civilians documented staggering increases in cases of birth defects, child mortality, cancers and a multitude of life-altering diseases years after the disaster.
Main title:
Manual for survival : a Chernobyl guide to the future / Kate Brown.
Author:
Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.), author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2019.
Collation:
420 pages : illustration (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241352069 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1136113
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