Manual for Survival av Kate Brown

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<p><b>''Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller'' Robert Macfarlane<br><br></b><b>''The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich'' </b><i>Irish Times</i><br><b><br>** National Book Critics Circle Finalist 2019 **</b><br><br>The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, ''the worst nuclear disaster in history'', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story, one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the magnitude of the disaster has been actively suppressed.<br><br>For years after, Soviet scientists, bureaucrats and civilians were documenting staggering increases in birth defects, child mortality, cancers and other life-altering diseases. Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of radiation release from Cold War weapons-testing, scientists