{"product_id":"midnight-in-chernobyl-the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-nuclear-disaster-9781501134630","title":"Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom journalist Adam Higginbotham, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \"account that reads almost like the script for a movie\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal)--\u003c\/i\u003ea powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history's worst nuclear disasters.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a \"riveting, deeply reported reconstruction\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The most complete and compelling history yet\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e), Higginbotham's \"superb, enthralling, and necessarily terrifying...extraordinary\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) book is an indelible portrait of the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will--lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam Higginbotham has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMidnight in Chernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the winner of the William E. Colby Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and \u003ci\u003eChallenger: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his family in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50579180519698,"sku":"9781501134630","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a25cc98-c0e6-4e6f-8b8c-f45a673c2a12.jpg?v=1732002169","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/midnight-in-chernobyl-the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-nuclear-disaster-9781501134630","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}