Winter Deals väntar – Shoppa nu!

Winter Deals väntar – Shoppa nu!

Fri Frakt över 299kr
Fri Frakt över 299kr
Kundservice
Manual for Survival

Manual for Survival

169 kr

169 kr

I lager

Tor, 9 jan - tis, 14 jan


Säker betalning

Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


Säljs och levereras av

Adlibris


Produktbeskrivning

The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. Yet award-winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story, one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the magnitude of this human and ecological catastrophe has been actively suppressed. Based on a decade of archival and on-the-ground research, Manual for Survival is a gripping expose of the consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover up the truth. As Brown discovers, Soviet scientists, bureaucrats, and civilians documented staggering increases in cases of birth defects, child mortality, cancers and a multitude of life-altering diseases years after the disaster. Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of massive radiation released from weapons-testing during the Cold War, scientists and diplomats from international organizations, including the UN, tried to bury or discredit it. Yet Brown also encounters many everyday heroes, often women, who fought to bring attention to the ballooning health catastrophe, and adapt to life in a post-nuclear landscape, where dangerously radioactive berries, distorted trees and birth defects still persist today. An astonishing historical detective story, Manual for Survival makes clear the irreversible impact of nuclear energy on every living thing, not just from Chernobyl, but from eight decades of radiaoactive fallout from weapons development.

Artikel.nr.

3f3fb361-c4db-4d68-8352-85bd4339cdb4

Egenskaper

Språkversion

Engelska

Bokomslagstyp

Pocket

Antal sidor

432 sidor

Skrivet av

Kate Brown

Utgivare

Penguin Random House

Släpp datum

05,03,2020

Publiceringsår

2020

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9780141988542

Vikt & dimension

Bredd

129 mm

Djup

24 mm

Höjd

198 mm

Vikt

315 g

Manual for Survival

169 kr

169 kr

I lager

Tor, 9 jan - tis, 14 jan


Säker betalning

Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


Säljs och levereras av

Adlibris