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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Serhii Plokhy’s book digs deep into Chernobyl, showing it wasn’t just a technical failure but a disaster baked into a flawed Soviet system. Politics, secrecy, and human error combined to turn a safety test into catastrophe. How did the Soviet obsession with control make things worse? This is the story behind the headlines and the heroic faces often forgotten.
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