Půlnoc v Černobylu - Příběh největší jaderné katastrofy – Higginbotham Adam (2026)

The night of 25–26 April 1986 became a defining event in modern history. The explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor in Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused the greatest disaster in the history of nuclear energy. The accident changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living across the vast area around the plant and, as Mikhail Gorbachev said in 2006, was probably a key factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its effects are still felt around the world: the Chernobyl warning, later reinforced by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, led to a lasting decline in support for nuclear energy, once enthusiastically presented as “Atoms for Peace.” In Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higginbotham provides an informed and dramatic account of the fateful night and the days that followed, filled with striking detail. He spent several years gathering material for the book, pursuing the broader goal of placing the disaster within the history of nuclear energy and the social context of the declining Soviet socialist experiment. He presents the circumstances of the tragedy, its victims, the men and women who fought to contain it, and the scientists and officials who controlled Soviet nuclear physics and the nuclear industry with such clarity and readability that the book has reached millions of readers around the world and earned recognition from experts.