Chernobyl Notebook

Medvedev’s “Chernobyl Notebook” is a competent and dispassionately truthful account of the tragedy that occurred more than [25] years ago. This is perhaps the first time we have such a complete firsthand account in which nothing is kept back and there is no departmental “diplomacy.” The author is a nuclear power specialist who worked for a time at the Chernobyl AES and knows it well, just as he is personally acquainted with all the principal participants in the events. By virtue of his offi...