Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Fantastic book! It really helped to explain the gravity of the situation and how ignorant everyone was about radiation

Author introduces the topic using understandable basic chemistry to make the relevant background data of atomic warfare readable. The true story displays arrogance of men with enterprise and ambition that were willing to, and did, sacrifice so many people, the environment, and gave the potential of so much more horrendous disaster. The author uses the best sources available, with heavily historical, factual recounts, which I always appreciate in him. Tough subject matter, good writing. Minus a minor point neggling at me about his using the term "cast of characters", for a true-life story, with real misfortune.

This is the story of the accident in Chernobyl. It tells the story, in depth, from multiple points of view. I enjoyed that it shared the position of the country at the time. Its hard to imagine the Soviet Union when you've never been in a situation like that, this helped me understand why it was such a big deal. Would things have changed if the Union had been more transparent about the accident in the first place? Also appreciated the after that had details about the "main characters" and what happened to them.

My heart goes out to everyone who suffered and is still suffering due to lack of a government wanting the truth to be told even prior to the making of this mess!

Ooph... This book was not for me. It was definitely well written aaand oh so boring for about 2/3 of the way through. Fortunately, I was reading in tandem with the audiobook which was significantly less boring and yet it still drug ass. What did I even learn that I haven't seen in a documentary?.. My brain just didn't want to absorb this. 🥲