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Long Shadow of Chernobyl (English, German, Hardcover)
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Long Shadow of Chernobyl (English, German, Hardcover)
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Opening with an essay by Mikhail Gorbachev, the last head of state
of the Soviet Union, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, this is
a deeply personal journey into a landscape forever changed.
National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig, made nine visits to
Chernobyl over a period of 20 years; this is his powerful record of
an environmental and human tragedy. Through the perspective of the
victims living with the emotional and physical aftermath, to the
Exclusion Zone created by a massive evacuation (more than 350,000
people by the year 2000), to the abandoned neighboring city of
Pripyat, once a scientist's dream in terms of quality of life yet
now uninhabitable, it is a record of almost unbelievable suffering
and desolation. Working under enormous time and radiation pressure,
Ludwig ventures deeper into the belly of the beast than any other
photographer, repeatedly documenting the destroyed reactor No.4,
which will disappear under a New Safe Confinement for at least 100
years. This book does not always make for easy viewing. It is
however, an emotive, thought-provoking and necessary testament to
one of the twentieth century's worst nuclear disasters. Using
documents that until recently have been classified, from the CIA,
U.S Government Foreign Press Monitoring, Department of Energy,
Department of Defense, GAO and United States Congress of the
disaster, it becomes an even more important voice in the continuing
political, environmental and economic arguments around the safety
of using nuclear energy, particularly in light of the Fukushima
disaster in Japan twenty-five years later.
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