The unit control desk of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 1983

<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__adamhigginbotham.com_Archive_Home.html&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=bHpC9irXhivtSwyVyKc43lLt4-cAwmmH7TeQLPqTb5E&amp;r=3mOEa7BL5xda2RV6aIvf7QcX9yQ1ErhlAnSOFRweDaY&amp;m=O072r7QHfYg3cvbW9uJVjjSwFQM97leX3y2r5bhSl8w&amp;s=NXxI3yf93GR2re16wxYZq3XL5bWk8ttMxfSbg2kwLi0&amp;e=">Adam Higginbotham</a> writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of the book <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.simonandschuster.com_books_Midnight-2Din-2DChernobyl_Adam-2DHigginbotham_9781501134616&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=bHpC9irXhivtSwyVyKc43lLt4-cAwmmH7TeQLPqTb5E&amp;r=3mOEa7BL5xda2RV6aIvf7QcX9yQ1ErhlAnSOFRweDaY&amp;m=O072r7QHfYg3cvbW9uJVjjSwFQM97leX3y2r5bhSl8w&amp;s=YmLKxq--8Pz1MBHet_GdC2JcQ-7BAnBWnFmGk7FnTpc&amp;e=">Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster</a>.

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Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of the book Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World&#8217;s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.

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Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of the book Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster.

During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged, AIDS ravaged the United States, especially the gay male community, and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture.

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Chernobyl: 7 People Who Played a Crucial Role in the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster