Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster [First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition] 9781501134616, 9781501134647

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster [First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition]
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Table of contents :
Part 1. Birth of a city. The Soviet Prometheus --
Alpha, beta, gamma --
Friday, April 25, 5:00 p.m., Pripyat --
Secrets of the peaceful atom --
Friday, April 25, 11:55 p.m., Unit Control Room Number Four --
Saturday, April 26, 1:28 a.m., Paramilitary Fire Station Number Two --
Saturday, 1:30 a.m., Kiev
Saturday, 6:15 a.m., Pripyat --
Sunday, April 27, Pripyat --
Part 2. Death of an empire. The cloud --
The China Syndrome --
The battle of Chernobyl --
Inside Hospital Number Six --
The liquidators --
The investigation --
The sarcophagus --
The forbidden zone --
The trial --
The elephant's foot --
A tomb for Valery Khodemchuk.

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