ATOMS AND ASHES: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Plokhy recounts the dramatic history of Three Mile Island and five more accidents that have dogged the nuclear industry in its military and civil incarnations: the disastrous fallout caused by the testing of the hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Atoll in 1954; the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in the USSR; the Windscale fire; Chernobyl; and Fukushima in Japan. Illus.