Nancy’s Reviews > Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster > Status Update

32 hours to finally issue the evacuation order! As much as I can't wrap my head around most of the stuff that's happened thus far, I literally cannot even begin to comprehend what would cause them to endanger human life for so long, just to contain the information and keep the rest of the world from finding out about how USSR ran and how epically they fucked up.

It's going a little faster and easier now that there's less explanation of who's who, what everything is, how it all fits together, and why everything was the way it was. Shit has hit the fan and now we're dealing with the literal fallout.

I feel like there is a lot of information and a lot of repetition/explanation of things that are probably very important, but also, not that important to me. There's also a bunch of things that I've had to go back to re-read or look up in an outside source to fully understand. Sometimes the explanation of things is a little more scientific than I can get with the language the author uses.

This is slow going, something things have had to be re-read for even minute comprehension. There's a lot of back information, history of Russia, Soviet Union, or USSR, biographies of people involved in any way. And some googling of groups or people or other disasters/places mentioned. But, maybe, just maybe, there is a slight understanding of how all this works. Probably not though.

Wow, there's a lot to unpack so far.