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If You Liked HBO’s “Chernobyl,” Read These
Nuclear disaster is explosive stuff right now, and who doesn’t love science?
Published on October 12, 2023
Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana AlexievichAn oral history about the worst nuclear disaster in history from a Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The devastation may have officially occurred April 26, 1986, but it’s an ongoing catastrophe, with people experiencing lingering health problems and land made uninhabitable.
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam HigginbothamYou’ve never heard the horrifying details of Chernobyl so thrillingly or nightmarishly told as in this book. Journalist Adam Higginbotham grips the fallible human hearts at the core of this story of large-scale disaster.
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: A Novel
Darragh McKeonMeltdowns — whether familial, national, or nuclear — form the hotly glowing heart of this ambitious debut novel about Chernobyl. McKeon finds those precious details and moments where the intimate and the historical intertwine.
Atomic Accidents
James MaheffeyYou certainly know bits and pieces about many major nuclear disasters — Chernobyl (duh), Three Mile Island, Fukushima. But this comprehensive history of the human stories and the technical aspects of all the atomic accidents through the years — and the repercussions these had on our understanding and acceptance of nuclear energy — will, *ahem*, blow you mind.
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Richard Lloyd ParryThe Fukushima meltdown in 2011 is the only other nuclear failure besides Chernobyl to be given the highest disaster level classification on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Read about how that horrible tsunami (which killed over 15,000 people) and subsequent nuclear catastrophe haunt Japan.