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Radio 4,23 May 1986,15 mins

Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1986

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke on the political aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, differences in its reporting, and what lessons Gorbachev and Reagan can learn from the disaster.

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