Books like Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks follows the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her consent and later became the first immortal human cell line, HeLa, driving major scientific breakthroughs while raising questions of ethics, race, and medical exploitation.

In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy chronicles the brave firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who battled the radioactive inferno, revealing systemic flaws in the Soviet nuclear industry.

Resumen y sinopsis de ¿Arde Nueva York? de Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins Nueva York, septiembre de 2004. A seis semanas de su reelección, George W. Bush se enfrenta al más estremecedor chantaje terrorista. Un grupo de extremistas, dirigidos por Bin Laden, ha conseguido introducir en Manhattan una bomba nuclear. Los terroristas han anunciado que la harán estallar a no ser que el presidente de EE.UU obligue a los israelíes a retirarse de los territorios palestinos ocupados. Junto con su consejera Condoleeza Rice y el alcalde de Nueva York, Michael Bloomberg, el Presidente deberá buscar la manera de evitar la catástrofe nuclear y resolver la crisis. Estos maestros de la narrativa vuelven con un thriller absorbente en el que la realidad y la ficción se mezclan de forma magistral para conducir al lector por el complejo entramado político de nuestros días.

A gripping true story of Attila Ambrus, a former Hungarian hockey goalie turned celebrated gentleman thief, exploring his daring heists, personal quirks, and the post‑communist era that shaped his legend.

Long before the tragedy of the 2011 nuclear disasters in Japan, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl experienced an explosion, meltdown, fire, and massive release of radioactivity. Twenty-five years later, we still know very little about the event and its aftermath. Few of the professional papers describing the aftereffects of the disaster have been translated from Russian into English or distributed in the West. This is now remedied, with the publication of this definitive volume, based on original sources, and originally published in Russian. The author describes the human side of the disaster, with firsthand accounts by those who lived through the world's worst public health crisis. This is an account of events by a reporter who defied the Soviet bureaucracy. The author presents an accurate historical record, with quotations from all the major players in the Chernobyl drama. She also provides unique insight into the final stages of Soviet communism. She describes actions after the disaster: how authorities built a new city for Chernobyl residents but placed it in a highly polluted area. She also details the actions of the nuclear lobby inside and outside the former Soviet Union. Bringing the book into the twenty-first century, the author reviews the latest medical data on Chernobyl people's health from the affected countries and from independent investigations; and states why there has been no trial of top officials who covered up Chernobyl and its disastrous consequences.