No breathing room : the aftermath of Chernobyl
Grigori Medvedev, former chief engineer at Chernobyl and author of the acclaimed The Truth About Chernobyl, now reveals for the first time how censorship has kept us from realizing the full extent of the nuclear disasters that the new republics are facing. In this chilling new book, Medvedev tells how even after Chernobyl, right through most of the Gorbachev era, censorship systematically sought to keep him and the Soviet people from learning key facts about their lethal nuclear power industry. News of accidents at other plants was carefully manipulated to "shield" people from full awareness of the terrible health and ecological consequences. Mismanagement was covered up. In August 1990, censorship was officially abolished and, as Medvedev puts it, "censorship, the hangman, died
Print Book, English, ©1993
Basic Books, New York, NY, ©1993