Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

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What went wrong on the 26 April 1986 disaster and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed

Historian Serhii Plokhy tells a detailed story of what went wrong on the 26 April 1986, what had been going wrong long before the explosion and what continued to go wrong in the days, weeks and years that followed.