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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Door Kate Brown

Categorie
Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer
#421643-YF5
Titel
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Auteur
Brown, Kate
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Press
Jaar van uitgave
2020
ISBN10
0141988541
ISBN13
9780141988542
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 the disaster has been actively suppressed. For years after, Soviet scientists, bureaucrats and civilians were documenting staggering increases in birth defects, child mortality, cancers and other life-altering diseases. Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of radiation release from Cold War weapons-testing, scientists and diplomats from international organizations, including the UN, tried to bury or discredit it. Brown a... (Lees verder)lso encounters many everyday heroes, often women, who fought to bring attention to the ballooning human and ecological catastrophe, and adapt to life in a post-nuclear landscape, where the dangerous effects of radiation persist today. Based on a decade of archival and on-the-ground research, Manual for Survival is a gripping historical detective story that brings to light the real consequences of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover them up.
Pagina's
420
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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