Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost, Volume 10Oberg investigates modern disasters in the Soviet Union--from space shots to industrial catastrophes, to pollution, floods and fires. What really happened, why were they covered up, and how were they finally discovered? This book explains it all. 8 pages of black-and-white photos. |
Contents
DEAD COSMONAUTS | 156 |
EXPLODING ROCKETS | 177 |
REACTORS FROM THE SKY | 198 |
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aboard accident Aeroflot air crash kills aircraft airliner American Antarctic anthrax April August aviation base booster border casualties catastrophe Chelyabinsk Chernobyl contamination cosmonaut crewmen death December described documented émigré engines explosion failure FBIS-SU February fire Flight International fuel glasnost Golovanov incident Izvestiya January July June Khrushchev Kosmos Kulyapin Kyshtym later launch London March Mars miles missile mission Moscow naval Nedelin never newspaper November nuclear weapons occurred October official Soviet operations orbit passengers photographs pilot plane plant Pravda prisoners Proton Proton rocket published radiation radio radioactive reactor released reported reportedly rescue rocket RORSAT rumors Russian safety satellite scientists Sea of Japan secrecy secret September Severomorsk ship shot Sochi sources Soviet nuclear Soviet press Soviet space Soviet submarine Soviet Union Soyuz station story submarine Sverdlovsk Swedish TASS Techa River told Urals USSR victims Vostok West Western Zhores Medvedev