Higginbotham's superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Filled with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astonishing incompetence moves...
She doesn't give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope. Midnight in Chernobyl By Adam Higginbotham Higginbotham's superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology ...
But watching news reports the last few days I kept remembering first-person descriptions of the country and it’s people — especially its men — in New York Times war correspondentDexter Filkins book, “The Forever War”.Assigned to the country shortly after the US’s post-9/11 invasion, ...
"Nuclear weapons are designed with great care to explode only when deliberately armed and fired. Nevertheless, there is always a possibility that, as a result of accidental circumstances, an explosion will take place inadvertently. Although all conceivable precautions are taken to prevent them, such ...
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Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Filled with vivid details and personalities, this narrative of astonishing incompetence (无能;不胜任) mo...
Obtained by The New York Post He’s being sought in connection with stabbings on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, according to the NYPD. A surveillance photo allegedly shows Banks holding the knife in gloved hands. “He has a very very lengthy arrest history,” a police source said. “It looks ...
“traditional” phases. Colonization, when the new arrivals settled in base camps along the coasts and exploited the abundant animal food resources, lasted until about 1400. The transitional phase—marked by a growth in population, a shift to a fish, shellfish, and plant diet, the emergence ...
The world’s largest nuclear plant, in Fukushima, was in meltdown and an explosion had blown its roof off. There was talk of evacuating Tokyo. /jlne.ws/3LWc7LW The Goldfinger film director says greed, financial illiteracy expose Hongkongers to scams South China Morning Post The Goldfinger,...
Little Boy was a 9,700-pound uranium bomb, the first of its kind ever dropped in war—an event the New York Daily News reported on Aug. 7. Shortly after, another bomb, Fat Boy, would fall on Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender. World War II was over, but the nuclear age had ...