I can feel why people were afraid of the Chernobylites
343131
The first story was compelling until the last part, where the wife of the firefighter, after the deaths of her loved ones, forgets all of that and moves to Kiev, manages to snag a husband, and manages to have a son without an arm and frail (would be dead by now).

No voice of the new husband, who thought he could have rescued her, is given of course, but I do not think he would have been too happy to read about the whole thing about his wife's past.

You can't blame those who shunned the Chernobylites. It shows what happens if you had compassion to one of them.
2101987
There was a moment or two where I was actually scared which shows how good this film was.  There's something about Korean film making that gets to me.
3931286
this is the first book that scared me since reading burnt offerings in the 70s.  I can understand the survivalist movement - they probably read this book, too!
2561802
The possibility that there can be an obscure reason for the experience of certain things makes me feel better about the fact that they are symptoms with an explination
3278289
The human mind and spirit can be amazingly resilient. I can't fathom being a prisoner in a Nazi death camp, but I feel like I visited one thru the eyes and heart of Helen. This is an important book, that answered some questions I had regarding how this all happened. Why did so many Jewish people not believe this was going to happen?
1481388
My father was 19 and living in Royalton, Il when the tornado came through. He told my sister and I about it often.  It was our favorite bedtime story.  He told us about the chickens without feathers, cows stuck into tree trunks by their horns, the railroad bridge twisted up in the air, people walking around stunned by what had happened, how he was blown into a barbershop window that broke and the miners coming out of the mines and finding everything gone. But he never told us about the horrible deaths and the physical and mental devastation. I've researched it over the years through newspaper clippings on the internet, television broadcasts, etc. because I felt it was part of our family history.  This book set everything into focus. I felt very much a part of it. The whole thing was made very real. My heart ached for those people, I was proud of their courage and bravery. I knew what these people were like. I felt like them.  I admired them.  What a wonderful job this author did on this story.  She made it come alive.  A book I will read again and again.
228511
The only way for me to comprehend tragedy on a huge scale is to understand it from the perspective of real people, with names and stories. Lucy Birmingham delivers that and then some in this very emotive telling of the 2011 Tsunami and resulting nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in Japan. I came away in awe of the survival instincts of human beings and the immense and destructive power of mother-nature. Peter Smith, Author, Hiring Squirrels.
425038
I thought this an interesting book in light of what has happened to the Japanese nuclear power plants.  Here is a nuclear reactor that melted down and spewed radiation over large parts of Ukraine and Belarus.  Not only did it kill a lot of people, but it made people pack up and live some place else.

Especially interesting are the those who fled life in this region.  With the de Sovietization of Russia and the near abroad, many Russians are flocking to this region, as they feel it is safer than the ones they exited due to armed conflict.  It also shows the shocking details of people sent to the region to help in putting out the nuclear crisis, only to be sickened and killed by the disease.

I thought this an interesting read about the reactions of people who experienced this nuclear accident.  It shows how Three Mile Island could have been worse.
655450
David Pelzer's book touched me.

Im in my mid teenage years and I wouldn't expect that there is so much pain, fear and agony people my age and younger experience every day.

I held on to his book(My Story containing all three books)day and night, literally.

During class at school, while eating, and untill the early morning hours.

His books speak about the fear of living with a person who doesnt love you, underestimates you, beats you up in the most cruel ways and makes you feel like an "It".

I must admit I can't remember the times I cried while reading his story.

He made me realise how lucky I am, and how some children grow up on their own, becoming survivors and victims of mentally disturbed parents, and of course how some children don't make it.

If there was such a thing as 10 stars, these books would undoubtebly give them.

I recomend this book to everyone who grew up really loved because we really don't know how lucky we are and also to those who are "survivors",who experience the same things, they'll realise their not alone and they can help themselves, to those who have real feelings and lastly to anyone who believes that not having the newest trend is the end of the world,they'll realise how wrong they are.

Hope I've helped..

Emma
3388914
I lived in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, a small town which was situated within the 10 mile range of Three Mile Island. I was 24 years old at the time. All the townspeople, near and far, were wondering what they would have to do to escape if a nuclear disaster occured. The documentary gives you the same intense feeling that I felt at that critical moment in time, and is excellent in how it delivered acurate detail of chilling events as each day passed by. I recommend this film and hope that it will teach many individuals of what can suddenly happen, without warning.
1498603
I normally don't become afraid from these kinds of movies, but my heart was pounding.
3123199
I'm appalled at the nuclear exposure experienced by our soldiers. Certainly a callous leadership was exhibited.  We have such brave enlisted people in our armed forces.
3626320
A very scary adventure novel, I felt chilled in reading it.  That it could really happen is what is so frightening.  One of the things that makes the Earth fragile.
3215373
From the very beginning  you can smell the cordite and feel the fear. As a former reporter I loved the truthful sketches of bar scenes, and the pervading sense of how messy and risky life really was behind the neatly edited stories that - for the first time - brought war into our living room.
3086141
As I read this book I found myself reliving horrible experiences of public speaking and the paralyzingly fear that comes over me.  I enjoy small group discussions that I don't have to participate in, but enjoy very much just listening.  After reading this I now feel comfortable saying no to those uncomfortable situations.
3484602
Reading about the war, the horrible things mankind can do to each other made me shudder. Reading about the courage of every day people and their love for one another I wondered if I could survive a war. This book is not for the faint hearted but it will bless with clarity everyone who reads it.
3716082
In her book, "Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats", Kristen Iversen tells two stories, one about growing up in a family where her father was an alcoholic and the other about the growing up in Arveda, CO near Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. Both deal with denial of dangerous situations. In her family nobody talked about her dad's drinking, even when he left empty bourbon bottles around the house, drove drunk, causing accidents and she and her siblings were afraid to bring friends home because they never knew where they might come upon empty bottles.  In the case of Rocky Flats, most of the people in her town and surrounding towns worked at the plant or had a family member who did.  Few people knew exactly what was being produced there and since the pay was good and produced a good standard of living, it was easy to believe what they were told about it being a safe place to work, and to deny that there was any danger. After all, there were thousands of people employed there, and many more thousands of families living in the subdivisions nearby.  Denver was only about 15 miles away. If there was any real danger, the government would warn them, right?

I don't know if the most frightening thing about Rocky Flats is that it was covered up both literally and figuratively or that the radioactive plutonium will still be around 24,000 years from now. Iversen talks in her book about how it is now closed and is in the process of becoming a National Wildlife Preserve where the plan is to open it to people as a recreation area one day. But what about all of the plutonium that's mixed with the dirt and dust and is still measurable?  How can you cover it all up with concrete when it's in the dust and the air while it's being poured?  After several generations, will people even know the significance of the area?  Will they know the danger?  Will there be technology to clean it up?  What about thousands of years from now when it's still radioactive?  Or is it really covered up well enough that it is no longer a problem?

I knew very little about Rocky Flats before reading this book. It was just a name of "some weapons place" that I might have read about in the newspaper or heard about protests at the gate back in the 60's or 70's. While I was reading the book I asked several people if they'd ever heard of it.  Most of them hadn't. This book was disturbing to read, but I think that this is an important book and Kristin Iversen did an excellent job of digging out details, timelines and personal accounts of people connected with the plant.  It's a book I won't soon forget.