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  • PARADIGM RED. by King, Harold.
    King, Harold.
    PARADIGM RED.

    Edition: First printing.

    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a thriller on the attempt of a few men to counteract the danger when a saboteur sets off an explosion in one of the most powerful nuclear reactors in the world. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-672520516.

    Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (bump to edge of spine with a hole in the dj, other tears to dj, original price of 7.95 still present) .

    Book ID: 67980
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  • NO BREATHING ROOM: The Aftermath Of Chernobyl. by Medvedev, Grigori.
    Medvedev, Grigori.
    NO BREATHING ROOM: The Aftermath Of Chernobyl.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by the chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear plant at the time of its construction (in 1970) which "relates the grim aftermath of the 1986 disaster and the attempted cover-up by the Gorbachev regime. Medvedev. . . emphasizes that authorities knew about, and covered up, pre-Chernobyl nuclear accidents and near-accidents (particularly the Chelyabinsk explosion in the late 1950s), and he indicates that a combination of secrecy, neglect, ignorance, and bureaucratic callousness prevented responsible officials from anticipating or doing much about potential accidents at other Soviet nuclear facilities." (Kirkus Reviews) Translated from the Russian by Evelyn Rossiter. Introduction by David Marples. Index. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-465051146.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 74855
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