Adam Higginbotham

Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ and Smithsonian. He is the author of the book Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster.

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The unit control desk of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 1983
1980s

Chernobyl: 7 People Who Played a Crucial Role in the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster

From a 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to a grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who thought evacuation was for sissies, here are the protagonists at the center of the tragedy.