Chernobyl (HBO Mini Series)

[Scabutz]

Vipers said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Vipers said:

I recall reading a book about the number of nuclear accidents in the states it included a nuclear bomb which was dropped from a plane by accident in America, which fortunately didn’t explode, and one which was left somewhere for years as they had forgot about it.

Can’t recall the title, but absolutely shocking reading.

There have actually been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents.

Of those, 6 involve nuclear weapons that remain lost and unaccounted-for.

See
https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrow...

Sound about right. Good find.

I thought the proper terms was empty quiver for lost nukes and broken arrow was them accidentally going off?

[shakotan]

pidsy said:

miniman said:

I watched the Ben Fogle documentary on Channel 5 on demand the other night, pretty good generally and really good to see inside the control room and the adjacent reactor, footage I hadn't seen before. It also featured the Duga Radar:



Which led down the wormhole of watching The Russian Woodpecker (available on Amazon and others) last night, a documentary by a chap convinced that the explosion at Chernobyl was deliberate, as a cover to prevent an inspection of the failed Duga project. Quite tin foil hatty but an interesting watch including some good footage of the Duga installation.

It’s absolutely huge when you’re standing in front of it.
The scale is really hard to comprehend.

I got about half way climbing Duga before I bottled it. It is remarkably big (and shonky!)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

shakotan said:

pidsy said:

miniman said:

I watched the Ben Fogle documentary on Channel 5 on demand the other night, pretty good generally and really good to see inside the control room and the adjacent reactor, footage I hadn't seen before. It also featured the Duga Radar:



Which led down the wormhole of watching The Russian Woodpecker (available on Amazon and others) last night, a documentary by a chap convinced that the explosion at Chernobyl was deliberate, as a cover to prevent an inspection of the failed Duga project. Quite tin foil hatty but an interesting watch including some good footage of the Duga installation.

It’s absolutely huge when you’re standing in front of it.
The scale is really hard to comprehend.

I got about half way climbing Duga before I bottled it. It is remarkably big (and shonky!)

I got really annoyed with Abandoned Engineering when they asked "could this radar array have caused the accident at the nearby Chernobyl reactor?"

No. No it could not. The causes of the accident are well documented.

FFS

(Guess they came across the same tinfoil hat theory)

[wpa1975]

I know the story has been told many times but a new 3 part documentary starts on channel 5 tonight @ 9pm.

https://deadline.com/2022/05/the-chernobyl-disaste...

[cheesewotsit]

To further knowledge, I'd recommend this, if it's not been recommended in the thread already:



I'm about 2/3 of the way through. I read it as a lecture. It's quite science-y for those educated in that field, but contextual enough for me to understand.

Anyone else any nuclear disaster books to recommend? I've got this to read next:
and fancy 'Plutopia' after that.

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Watched Three Mile Island last week, based of suggestions in this thread, and I've got the Lost Tapes on my watchlist for this week, too.

[pidsy]

Whilst we are doing recommendations, anyone who hasn’t seen this, it’s probably the best documentary on Chernobyl that I’ve seen.

The Battle of Chernobyl.

https://youtu.be/MVGoDAb5Jqo

It’s 1hr 40 mins, not great quality (ripped from VHS I think) but very good.