Myths of Chernobyl
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Myths of Chernobyl
14.99 €
This book is unique. You have never read anything like this about Chernobyl. There are many more myths about Chernobyl than about the sinking of the Titanic, even though many witnesses of the events are still alive, and yet the ideas of the mass of people about Chernobyl are absolutely mythical, having not the slightest relation to reality.
What really happened in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant? Were the true scale of the disaster downplayed - or, on the contrary, exaggerated? Is radiation really as dangerous as people think? And is there a direct link between low doses of radiation and cancer? What is true and what is false in popular TV programs about "monstrous mutations" and "incalculable victims of Chernobyl"? Should we believe the popular accusations about the "terrible atom that destroys all living things", "demonic atomic workers" and "nightmarish nuclear power plants"? Or are all these just superstitions and myths forcibly hammered into the public consciousness during the ideological war waged against the USSR? The author of this sensational study, physicist, historian and philosopher Sergei Pereslegin, for the first time considers the Chernobyl tragedy not only as a real man-made disaster, but also as a whole complex of myths imposed on the whole world, but primarily on the citizens of the USSR.
What really happened in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant? Were the true scale of the disaster downplayed - or, on the contrary, exaggerated? Is radiation really as dangerous as people think? And is there a direct link between low doses of radiation and cancer? What is true and what is false in popular TV programs about "monstrous mutations" and "incalculable victims of Chernobyl"? Should we believe the popular accusations about the "terrible atom that destroys all living things", "demonic atomic workers" and "nightmarish nuclear power plants"? Or are all these just superstitions and myths forcibly hammered into the public consciousness during the ideological war waged against the USSR? The author of this sensational study, physicist, historian and philosopher Sergei Pereslegin, for the first time considers the Chernobyl tragedy not only as a real man-made disaster, but also as a whole complex of myths imposed on the whole world, but primarily on the citizens of the USSR.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Anti-Myths. Against Fake History