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Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1979)
| Author | Zhores A. Medvedev |
| Date | 1979 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.80/17 (RUSSIA - MAYAK/CHELYABINSK (incl. Disaster Kyshtym Urals 1957)) |
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From the publication:
The terrifying true story of how an explosion of buried atomic waste in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1957-58 devastated an area the size of Rhode Island which is still uninhabitable, and of how the Soviet authorities and British and American Atomic Energy Commissions tried for years to keep the information from reaching the public. "Utterly convincing. It grips the reader like an intellectual thriller, building inexorably to a haunting conclusion" - Washington Post. ''The implications for the U.S. nuclear energy controversy are obvious and serious. The book should be widely read and discussed?' - Library Journal. "One wonders not whether it happened but how and why news of the accident was kept secret for so long" - The Wall Street Journal. "[A] convincing picture of serious contamination over a large area on the eastern side of the southern Urals where the original Soviet military nuclear industry was situated" - Nature.
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