The Definitive History of a Nuclear Catastrophe.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded, triggering the worst nuclear disaster in human history. In this gripping book, acclaimed Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy draws on newly opened archives to recreate the harrowing events in minute-by-minute detail, shedding light on the heroism of firefighters, scientists, workers, and soldiers who risked their lives to contain the inferno.

Plokhy goes beyond the immediate technical failures of the turbine test to reveal how the catastrophic meltdown was rooted in the authoritarian nature of the Soviet political system, official secrecy, and systemic flaws in the nuclear industry. This dramatic account illustrates how the disaster exposed the dysfunctional inner workings of the regime, ultimately accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later.

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