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“The stuff of nightmares! This past week marked the 42nd anniversary of the Three Mile Island disaster (in a quirk of timing, the movie The China Synd”
“The stuff of nightmares! This past week marked the 42nd anniversary of the Three Mile Island disaster (in a quirk of timing, the movie The China Syndrome was released during the same week) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As with most Philadelphians, I remember watching this disaster play out in real time, so this weekend I spent a few hours re-watching Chernobyl. Comparing the two, TMI was a minor hiccup in the reactor!
For those of a certain age, especially in Western European and North America, the Chernobyl disaster played out in a shroud of typical Iron Curtain secrecy.
Oh, what little we knew, or even suspected back then!!
"Chernobyl" the mini-series encapsulated, in exquisite detail, not only how bad it truly was (and worse, what it could've been), but t” read more
"Although at times the story wasn't historically accurate, overally Chernobyl was done excellently. Those who survived working on the catastrophy site, generally reviewed this show positively. There were powerful bits that revealed the political system and general life of the people from the period and place the show portrays. I saw multiple books about it in bookshops, it's wonderful that a TV show can educate and inspire people to gain interest in history. "