Chernobyl
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The First Report
Examine how bad news was softened, ignored or delayed, without reducing it to "Soviet officials lied."
- Here's what happened, from the historical record. The accident happened at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986. Evacuation of the nearby town of Pripyat began on April 27. On April 28, Swedish monitoring stations reported abnormally high radioactivity carried by the wind and demanded an explanation, after which the Soviet government publicly acknowledged an accident at Chernobyl. Why do you think experienced leaders sometimes resist evidence that something is seriously wrong?
- What did people closest to the problem know?
- What reached the decision-makers?
- Where did it change, and why?
- What did people risk by telling the truth?
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