Chernobyl

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1. rpepOct 2022
   The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy.

   He also wrote an excellent book about Chernobyl which I read last year.

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2. lostloginMay 2019
   Thanks for this. For those interested in radioactive wastelands, the current TV series ‘Chernobyl’ seems very good, and so is the book ‘Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe’ by Serhii Plokhy

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894

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3. yesprabhuMay 2019
   The book, 'Chernobyl, History of a Tragedy' by Serhii Plokhy gives a very good account of the accident. Days preceding, the burning days ,and political and social repurcussions there after.
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4. toomuchtodoSep 2024
   (in no particular order)

   https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/ (Broken Money by Lyn Alden; ISBN13: 9798988666318)

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl (Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy; ISBN13: 9781541617094)

   https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinso... (The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; ISBN13: 9780316300162)

   https://www.nealstephenson.com/termination-shock.html (Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson; ISBN13: 9780063028050)

   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397/empty-planet... (Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson; ISBN13: 9781984823229)

   https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247625/ec... (Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton; ISBN13: 9780691247625)

   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313644/faster-highe... (Faster, Higher, Stronger: The New Science of Creating Superathletes, and How You Can Train Like Them by Mark McClusky; ISBN13: 9780147516473)

   https://www.ianyoungwrites.com/the-automaton (The Automaton by Ian Young; ISBN13: 9798986671000)

   https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250120854/thebondking (The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs; ISBN13: 9781250120854)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map (The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Berlin Johnson; ISBN13 9781594489259)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book) (Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; ISBN13: 9780425284629)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day (Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh; ISBN13: 9781594201509)

   https://www.riverroadbooks.net/book/9780306812835 (Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon; ISBN13: 9780306812835)

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5. arethuzaMay 2021
   Mikhail Gorbachev for one

   https://slate.com/technology/2013/01/chernobyl-and-the-fall-...

   Edit: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy also makes a claim that the accident let to political instability in the Ukraine which certainly didn't help with the integrity of the SU.

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6. lostloginMar 2021
   Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl: History of Tragedy seems a great text on the subject, and while the tv series is undoubtedly dramatised and many characters are morphed into one, the tv series seems to broadly follow the history of events as described in the book. Serhii seems to have a favourable view of the tv series.

   Is there something glaring I am missing?

   https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/chernobyl-expert-serhii-plokhi...

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