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Adam Higginbotham and Evan Ratliff on the Untold Story of Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham and Evan Ratliff on the Untold Story of Chernobyl
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, released on the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, journalist and author Evan Ratliff was joined by Adam Higginbotham, author of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster.Higginbotham and Ratliff, talking at Acast's studio in New York, explore the political and social environment that allowed such an unprecedented human and environmental catastrophe, examining the disaster through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it. And Higginbotham explains how the disaster and its aftermath – along with the Soviet government's wholly inadequate response – might ultimately have hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam Higginbotham picture: Peter Eavis. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Apr 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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