Summary & Analysis of Midnight in Chernobyl

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.

Striking and poignant, this searing exposé unravels the untold stories behind the Soviet nuclear disaster of 1986. Midnight in Chernobyl captures the truth below the molten core which irradiated the tangled web of bureaucracy determined to erase it and ended an era.

What does this ZIP Reads Summary Include?

- Synopsis of the original book
- Key takeaways from each chapter
- Key players involved in the meltdown and cover-up
- A detailed timeline of events leading up to the disaster and following it.
- Editorial Review
- Background on Adam Higginbotham

About the Original Book:



It’s the flip side of the 1986 Chernobyl saga told with an objective candor lacking in historical accounts corroded by the clandestine. A nauseating tale of pain and denial, it tumbles down to the core and back again, more gruesome than any dystopian fairytale whispered under blanket forts before torchlight shadow monsters. The nuclear nightmare nearly destroyed the world as we know it with a swift and silent drift of radionuclides, and nothing but controversy to combat its advance. The indiscriminate terror was barely averted despite the infuriating bureaucracy that plagued the Party responsible. It’s a miracle we survived.


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