On the night of April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
Based on more than a decade of research, hundreds of interviews, personal correspondence, unpublished memoirs, and recently declassified archival documents, journalist Adam Higginbotham has written a heartbreaking and gripping account of the Chernobyl disaster through the eyes of its first witnesses.
The result is a masterfully crafted documentary thriller, a comprehensive account of an event that changed history—far more complex, human, and terrifying than the Chernobyl myth we've become accustomed to.