The Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: Chernobyl and the Soviet Nuclear Dream
The air in Pripyat, a city built for the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, was thick with the scent of pine needles and the hum of a burgeoning Soviet utopia. It was April 26, 1986. Inside Reactor No. 4, however, a different kind of energy was building – an unstable, terrifying force born … Read more