Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy

354 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative tense medium-paced
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Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into parti...

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