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The author did an exceptionally good job on several levels. 1) he told personal stories of the people involved, 2) he explained very well to me (I am a professional physicist who worked with radiation all my career , though not a nuclear physicist) what actually happened with reactor during the accident. This was an eye-opening experience. 3) and finally, he described the inhumane nature of the soviet regime, it's secrecy and how it treated (or, mistreated) people and sacrificed their safety and health for the goals of covering up the accident to protect the reputation of soviet regime and soviet science and technology. This is one of the best non-fiction books I've read and most likely the best on the subject of Chernobyl accident. I give it 5 stars because I cannot give 6.