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Readers will be taken through a journey that covers the minutes leading up to the explosion, the immediate response, and the astonishing yet often heartbreaking aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world—shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens, but all of humanity. It is a story that has long remained in dispute, clouded from the beginning in secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidnight in Chernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e stands as an indelible portrait of history's worst nuclear disaster. 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