Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy

12 hours, 13 minutes first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative tense medium-paced
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A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; t...

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informative 100%
reflective 42%
dark 35%
challenging 31%
tense 31%
sad 9%
emotional 5%
hopeful 1%
inspiring 1%
relaxing 1%

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slow 32%
fast 12%

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