Adam Higginbotham and Evan Ratliff on the Untold Story of Chernobyl

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🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, released on the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, journalist and author Evan Ratliff was joined by Adam Higginbotham, author of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Higginbotham and Ratliff, talking at Acast's studio in New York, explore the political and social environment that allowed such an unprecedented human and environmental catastrophe, examining the disaster through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it. And Higginbotham explains how the disaster and its aftermath – along with the Soviet government's wholly inadequate response – might ultimately have hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam Higginbotham picture: Peter Eavis. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.4	So this week is a special episode.
1:06.8	We're releasing it on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
1:11.3	I believe it's the 33rd anniversary since that disaster took place in Ukraine.
1:16.7	Huge geopolitical consequences, which are still being felt today in the debate about nuclear power. So we have Adam Higginbotham, the journalist, who has a new book
1:27.4	out called Midnight in Chernobyl, and he was interviewed by Evan Ratliff, the host of the Long Form podcast.
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