Andrew Leatherbarrow, driven by an insatiable curiosity, brings together in this book all the aspects to understand what happened, what it meant and what Chernobyl means today: the technical details, clearly explained; human stories, through the biographies of its protagonists and a multitude of details that give voice to the victims of Chernobyl; the political and economic aspects, delving into how the nuclear disaster was managed. The result is a trip to the place and time where everything began and everything changed forever.