Duck and cover
Edward Myers
In Denver, Colorado, in 1962, two eleven-year-old boys develop a rivalry that mimics the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as it reaches a crisis in October.
Read Time: ~9.3 hr
Midnight in Chernobyl
by Adam Higginbotham (2019)
About this book
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and newly declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham’s narrative brings to life the catastrophic meltdown and the desperate cover-ups that followed.
Setting / LocationPripyat, Ukraine & Moscow
Story Era1986 Cold War Soviet Union
Protagonist / CoreViktor Bryukhanov & Nuclear Plant Engineers
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