“ I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth w… Svetlana Alexievich
“ We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process. Svetlana Alexievich
“ At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that this was a magical factory that made "energy out of nothing," where people in white… Svetlana Alexievich