Midnight in Chernobyl Summary
Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl Overview

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Unclear Disaster is journalist Adam Higginbotham’s account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. In it, he covers the lead up to the disaster, a minute-by-minute account of exactly how it happened, the immediate response, the attempted cover-up, how it eventually came to light, long-term relief efforts, and the lasting legacy. It addresses themes such as the inevitability of the disaster, misplaced priorities, blame shifting, acts of individual heroism within a failing system, and how the disaster came to be one of the final nails in the coffin of the Soviet experiment.