Last week I finished Adam Higginbotham's Midnight in Chernobyl, a thrilling, if at times technically dense, account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, just in time to tune in the first installment of an HBO documentary on the same subject. Such are the benefits of all that spare time offered by retirement.Chernobyl, officially the V. I. …

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