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車諾比的厄夜：世界最大核災背後不為人知的真相
《紐約時報》最佳暢銷冠軍
紀實記者Adam Higginbotham耗時10年重新調查世界最大核災車諾比事件背後真相，揭穿虛偽的政治宣傳及神話
1986年4月26日的早晨，車諾比核電廠的4號反應爐爆炸了，因此引爆史上最重大的核災危機。30年後的現在，車諾比成為世界噩夢的代名詞：輻射外洩引發的中毒、科技帶來的危機、脆弱的大自然，還有一個粗心且謊言連篇的政府如何危害世界及他們的人民。透過作者的紀實報導，加深我們對這場災難及其後果的真實理解及爭議性。
作者透過10多年無數的目擊者第一手訪談、新公開的檔案資料和追蹤報導，終於完成充滿戲劇張力和悲慘真相的完整內容。令讀者彷彿親身經歷車諾比事件的恐懼、猜疑及錯誤，以及人類強大的韌性和創造力，見識到許多偉大的無名英雄如何在危險中急中生智，團結一致對抗危機，從這場災難中重新學習。
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens, but all of humanity. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful non-fiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.
Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will--lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats—remain not just vital but necessary.
