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Episode: Serhii Plokhy discusses his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy at the 2020 New Zealand Arts Festival
Description: Serhii Plokhy argues that the catastrophe at Chernobyl was a nuclear disaster waiting to happen. He talks to Toby Manhire. Listen to Serhii Plokhy talk with Toby Manhire in this highlight from the 2020 New Zealand Arts Festival writers' programmeSerhii Plokhy's award-winning account of the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl is, according to the New York Review of Books, "a masterful account of how the USSR's bureaucratic dysfunction, censorship, and impossible economic targets produced the disaster and hindered the response."In Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy Plokhy lays out his argument that...