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Chernobyl 01:23:40 : the Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster by Andrew Leatherbarrow; Elizabeth Petrey is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chernobyl 01:23:40 : the Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster about?

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and inaccurate stories. This book, the result of five years of research, presents an accessible but comprehensive account of what really happened. From the desperate fight to prevent a burning reactor core from irradiating eastern Europe, to the self-sacrifice of the heroic men who entered fields of radiation so strong that machines wouldn’t work, to the surprising truth about the legendary ‘Chernobyl divers’, all the way through to the USSR’s final show-trial. The historical narrative is interwoven with a story of the author’s own spontaneous journey to Ukraine’s still-abandoned city of Pripyat and the wider Chernobyl Zone. Complete with over 45 pages of photographs of modern-day Pripyat and technical diagrams of the power station, Chernobyl 01:23:40 is a fascinating new account of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Amazon edition revised to remove typos.

Who reads Chernobyl 01:23:40 : the Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster?

Author

Andrew Leatherbarrow; Elizabeth Petrey

Publisher

Andrew Leatherbarrow

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780993597503

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Russian & Soviet History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (340 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14