Adam Higginbotham and Evan Ratliff on the Untold Story of Chernobyl
In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, released on the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, journalist and author\xa0Evan Ratliff\xa0was joined by\xa0Adam Higginbotham, author of\xa0Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Higginbotham and Ratliff, talking at Acast's studio in New York, explore the political and social environment that allowed such an unprecedented human and environmental catastrophe, examining the disaster through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it. And Higginbotham explains how the disaster and its aftermath\xa0\u2013\xa0along with the Soviet government's wholly inadequate response\xa0\u2013\xa0might ultimately have hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.\xa0Adam Higginbotham picture: Peter Eavis.\n\nSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n\nSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices