A review by chelsea_not_chels
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown

3.0

Unfortunately, not really a guide to the future. This is very much a civil history of the Chernobyl disaster, which was fascinating in and of itself, but doesn't seem to illustrate that any lessons were learned or offer any real advice for what civilization should do going forward. Seeing the complicity of different governments to cover up the true effects of the disaster was striking and disturbing, and of course so was the hinting that the same thing was down following the Fukoshima disaster in 2011, though Brown never really dug into that. Very interesting historical look, but not much about the future, despite the promise of the title and summary.