A Nuclear Nation: Chornobyl and the Birth of Independent Ukraine
July 18, 2018, 6:00-8:00pm
Room S-050, CGIS South, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Join Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute for a lecture by Serhii Plokhii.
Plokhii's recent book, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, is the first comprehensive history written about the disaster, its causes and its aftermath through to 2017.
Speaker
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian history; director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
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