
Politics of Invisibility
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter ...
Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter ...