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The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
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The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals

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  • Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev with his twin brother, Roy
    Zhores Medvedev

    His book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1979) provided the West with the first details of a major nuclear disaster that had occurred in the Soviet Union in 1957. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990, and his books began to be published in the Soviet…

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    His book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1979) provided the West with the first details of a major nuclear disaster that had occurred in the Soviet Union in 1957. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990, and his books began to be published in the Soviet…

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