A review by unsuccessfulbookclub
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

I have never even considered what happens in a nuclear reactor nor had I thought much about Soviet politics or the Chernobyl disaster and | feel like | have taken a well-taught graduate level course on all of those things now. This book was riveting. I listened to quite a bit of it - the audio had a wonderful narrator (Jacques Roy) 

If you like apocalyptic science fiction, you will like this. 
Higginbotham puts so much humanity in the story of atomic disaster and political maneuvering giving this beefy nonfiction intense plot points to pull you through the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Chronic illness, Suicide, Cancer, Medical content, and Suicide attempt