Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian-American historian who is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. He is one of the world's leading historians of Eastern Europe, Russia, and nuclear history. Atoms and Ashes tells the story of six nuclear disasters — from Kyshtym to Chernobyl to Fukushima — examining what went wrong and what the consequences have been. Plokhy's other acclaimed books include Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers gripping, authoritative history about nuclear power and its dangers — essential reading from one of the world's foremost nuclear historians.