Adam Higginbotham on how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was like the Titanic
Adam Higginbotham talks about his book “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster” at the L.A. Times Festival of Books.
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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster dominated headlines after the Soviet reactor exploded on April 25, 1986. But there’s more to the story. Author Adam Higginbotham goes beyond the oft-told narrative in his latest book, “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.”
In a Times video interview from the Festival of Books, Higginbotham explained how the book helps draw parallels to another historic man-made tragedy.
“I think it’s an eternal story,” he shared. “It’s like the Titanic disaster. It represents a cross-section of, in this, case Soviet society, and exposes the kind of cowardice and bravery of individual human beings.”
