Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Businessweek, Smithsonian, Men's Journal, and The Atavist. He began his career in magazines and newspapers in London, where he was the editor-in-chief of The Face and a contributing editor at The Sunday Telegraph
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
Chernobyl was also a key event in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and, with it, the United States’ victory in the Cold War. For Moscow, it was a political and financial catastrophe as much as an environmental and scientific one. With a total cost of 18 billion rubles—at the time equivalent to $18 billion—Chernobyl bankrupted an already teetering economy and revealed to its population a state built upon a pillar of lies.
The full story of the events that started that night in the control room of Reactor No.4 of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant has never been told—until now. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, journalist Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story, including Alexander Akimov and Anatoli Dyatlov, who represented the best and worst of Soviet life; denizens of a vanished world of secret policemen, internal passports, food lines, and heroic self-sacrifice for the Motherland. Midnight in Chernobyl, award-worthy nonfiction that reads like sci-fi, shows not only the final epic struggle of a dying empire but also the story of individual heroism and desperate, ingenious technical improvisation joining forces against a new kind of enemy.
發表於2025-03-30
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評分新年第一本讀完的書,也是2019/2020年度過的最發人沉思的一本書。一直以來,切爾諾貝利事故始終如沉睡的怪獸引發諸多揣測和猜想。在各國大步邁進新能源的新時代,切爾諾貝利是否也有任何參考意義至少在大眾眼裏變得撲朔迷離。這本書旁徵博引地深刻挖掘瞭這場災難的深刻社會、政...
評分https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/midnight-in-chernobyl/ Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 切爾諾貝利的午夜 Adam Higginbotham February 12th 2019 by Simon & Schuster 子扉我 2019年春 季風異次元空間...
圖書標籤: 切爾諾貝利 紀實 曆史 Chernobyl 災難 蘇聯研究 英文原版 英文
近一半篇幅是注解與文獻,可見Fact check的嚴謹紮實。紐約客寫手當然文筆流暢,視野廣闊,構思精巧。最後一章講到犧牲員工的三重墓穴,既是寫實,又含隱喻,迴味無窮。這定是今年最棒的非虛構作品瞭。
評分Tragedy.
評分一聲嘆息。另外,本書有大量reference,很值得參照著順藤摸瓜繼續擴展閱讀。
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評分加拿大早上6點15分,昨晚看瞭這本書一夜未睡。幾個月前去切爾諾貝利的景象還曆曆在目,生硬冷漠蕭瑟的自然,同性的團裏還有個網紅在拍視頻。很心痛。這本書很好,有點遺憾沒有在去之前看。前蘇聯地區對我來說一直是個迷人又殘酷的存在。迷人在他們擁有美的藝術和浪漫的人和骨子裏倔勁,殘酷在他們會親手毀掉給世人看。
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