Leadership

• My research question is: How did the poor leadership, negligence, and poor communication from the Soviet Union about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion increase the severity of the disaster and cause the eventual adversities on humans and the environment many decades later?

The following are some of the sources I’ve used in previous modules to assist with writing activity lesson

Abramowitz, M. (1986, May 2). INR information memorandum from Morton Abramowitz to the Secretary of State: Estimate of fatalities at Chernobyl reactor accident. National Security Archive. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19496-national-security-archive-doc-9-inr-information

Alexievich, S. (2006). Voices from Chernobyl: The oral history of a nuclear disaster (K. Gessen, Trans.). Picador.

Geist, E. (2015). Political fallout: The failure of emergency management at Chernobyl’. Slavic Review, 74(1), 104–126. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104

Schmid, S. D. (2015). Producing power: The pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry. The MIT Press.