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This is a bibliography of print and media resources related to the Chernobyl accident and its aftermath.
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Alexievich, S. & Bouis A., (Trans.) (1999) Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the Future. London: Aurum.
Barjakhtar, V. (Chief Ed.), (1996). Chornobylska katastrofa ( Chernobyl catastrophe). Kyiv, "Naukova dumka", 1996. 576 pp. (in Ukrainian).
Bromet, E. (1989). The nature and effects of technological failures. R. Gist & B. Lubin (Eds.) Psychosocial effects of disaster. (pp 120-139) New York: Wiley Press.
Bromet, E. (1995). Methodological issues in designing research on community-wide disasters with special reference to Chernobyl. In S. E. Hobfoll, & M. W. de Vries (Eds.), Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention (pp. 267-282). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bromet, E., Carlson, G., Goidgaber, D., & Gluzman, S. (1998). Health effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe on mothers and children. In B. L. Green (Chair), Toxic contamination: The interface of psychological and physical health effects. Symposium conducted at the XIV annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Washington, D.C.
Carbon, M. (1997), Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim? Madison, WI: Pebble Beach.
Cwikel, J. (2001) Understanding psychological and societal response to toxic hazards:The psychological response of individuals, groups, authorities and media. In J.M. Havenaar, J. Cwikel, E.J. Bromet (Eds.) Toxic turmoil: Psychological and societal consequences of ecological disasters.
Fedarenko, A.(1994) "Bliakha, or after Chernobyl." In End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former Soviet Union, edited by Roger Rosen and Patra McSharry Sevastiades. New York: Rosen.
Feshbach, M. and Friendly, A. (1992). Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege. New York: Basic Books.
Green, B., Lindy, J. & Grace, M. (1994). Psychological effects of toxic contamination. In R. J. Ursano, B.G. McCaughey & C.S. Fullerton (Eds.), Individual and community responses to trauma and disaster: The structure of human chaos (pp. 154-176). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gregorovich, A. (1996). Chornobyl nuclear catastrophe: Ten years after April 26, 1986. Internet publication. Document URL: http://www.infoukes.com/history/chornobyl/gregorovich
Gubaryev,V. Sarcophagus: A Tragedy. Translated by Michael Glenny. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing, 1990.
Havenaar, J. (2001) Ecological disaster: A lingering cloud. In J.M. Havenaar, J. Cwikel, E.J. Bromet (Eds.) Toxic turmoil: Psychological and societal consequences of ecological disasters.
Janoff-Bulman, R. (1992). Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma. New York: The Free Press.
Kondo, S. (1992) Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation. Medical Physics Publishing Co.: Madison, Wisconsin.
Kovalevskaya, L. (1995). Chernobyl DSP ( Chernobyl classified). - Kyiv, (in Russian).
Kronik, A., Akhmerov, R., Speckhard, A. (2000). Trauma & Disaster as Life Disrupters: A Computer Assisted Model of Psychotherapy Applied to Adolescent Victims of the Chernobyl Disaster.
Marples, D. (2004) The Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991 Harlow: Pearson-Longman.
Marples, D. (2002) Motherland: Russia in the Twentieth Century Harlow: Pearson-Longman.
Marples, D. (2000) Lenin's Revolution: Russia 1917-1921 Harlow: Pearson-Longman.
Marples, D. & Young, M. (Editors) (1997) Nuclear Energy and Security in the Former Soviet Union . Boulder , CO : Westview Press
Marples, D. (1996) Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Disaster. Basingstoke , UK : Macmillan Press; New York , N.Y. : St. Martin 's Press; and Edmonton , AB : The University of Alberta Press.
Marples, D. (1988) The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster. London: Macmillan.
Marples, D. (1987). Chernobyl & Nuclear Power in the USSR . London : Macmillan Press.
Medvedev, G. & Rossiter, E. (Translator). (1994) No Breathing Room: The Aftermath of Chernobyl. New York: Basic Books. With a special new introduction by David Marples. An account of the former chief engineer at Chernobyl against the "system"; Medvedev is also the author of The Truth About Chernobyl which was also published by Basic Books in 1991.
Medvedev, G. (1991) The Truth About Chernobyl. Translated by Evelyn Rossiter. New York: Basic, 1991.
Medvedev, Z. (1990). The legacy of Chernobyl. New York/London: Norton.
Mould, R.F. (2000) Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, 321 pp, Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Publishing.
Mycio, M. (2005). Wormwood Forest : A Natural History of Chernobyl . Washington , DC : Joseph Henry Press.
Onyshkevych, L.. (1990)"Echoes of Glasnost: Chornobyl in Soviet Ukrainian Literature." In Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine, edited by Romana M. Bahry, 151-70. North York, Canada: Captus UP
Petryna, A. (2002). Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Neel, J., and Schull, W., Eds., (1991) The Children of the Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Genetic Study. Washington : National Academy Press.
Pryde, Philip R. (1991). Environmental Management in the Soviet Union. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Seligman, M. (1975). Helplessness: On depression, development, and death. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.
Shcherbak, Y. Chernobyl: A Documentary Story. (1989) Translated by Ian Press. New York: St. Martin's.
Speckhard, A. (2001). Mental Health Effects of Technological Disaster: The Psychological Aftermath of Toxic Contamination. In N. Berkowitz (Ed.) Chernobyl: The event and the aftermath (pp.13-45). Madison, WI: Friends of Chernobyl Centers, U.S.
Speckhard, A.C. (2002) Voices from the Inside: Psychological Responses to Toxic Disasters in Toxic Turmoil: Psychological and Societal Consequences of Ecological Disasters. Havenaar, J.,Bromet, E., & Cwikel, J., Eds. (pp 217-236). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
Tykhyy. V. (1998) “ Chernobyl sufferers in Ukraine and their social problems”first appearing in the 1998 publication, Chernobyl Report, KURRI-KR-21, edited by Dr Tetsuji Imanaka of the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute.
Wahlstrom B., (1995) Understanding Radiation. Medical Physics Publishing Co., Madison, Wisconsin.
Weiner, Douglas R. (1988). Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Weinthal, Erika (2002). State-Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Yaroshinskaya, A.. 1995. The Truth About Chernobyl . Lincoln , NE : University of Nebraska Press. An Introduction by David Marples and a Forward by John Gofman is a bit of a mixed recommendation - DRM is an acknowledged expert on Chornobyl whereas the scientific establishment and John Gofman do not exactly see "eye to eye" on the question of radiation risks. The text is an account of the author's struggle against Soviet officialdom who attempted to suppress bad news and shift blame to lowly operators. An investigative journalist, Alla Yaroshinskaya comes from Zhitomir , an area affected radioactive fall out from the Chornobyl disaster. (From http://www.brama.com/ukraine/chornbib.html)
Yaroshynskaya, A. (1991). Chernobyl' s nami ( Chernobyl with us), "Kniga", Moscow. 158 pp. (in Russian)
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Baum, A., Fleming, R. & Davidson, L.M. (1983). Natural disaster and technological catastrophe. Environment and Behaviour 15 (pp. 333-353).
Clarke, R., & Southwood, T. (1989) Risks from Ionizing Radiation: A Commentary. Nature, vol 338, pp.197-198
Gembicki,M.,Stozharov, A.N., Arinchin, A.N., Moschick-Petrenko,.S.,Khmara, I.M. and Baverstock, K.F. (1997) Iodine deficiency in Belarussian children as a possible factor stimulating the irradiation of the thyroid gland during the Chernobyl catastrophe. Envir. Health Perspectives 105 (Suppl. 6): 1487-1490.
Goldman, M. (1997) The Russian radiation legacy: Its integral impact and lessons. Env. Health Perspec. 105:1385-1391.
Goldman, M. (1996) Cancer Risk of Low-Level Exposure, Science. Vol. 271, pp. 1821-1822
Green, B.L. (1998) Psychological responses to disasters: Conceptualization and identification of high-risk survivors. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 52 (Suppl.), S67-S73.
Havenaar, J.M., and van den Brink, W. (1997) . Psychological factors affecting health after toxicological disasters. Clin Psych Rev 17 (4) pp. 359-374.
Havenaar, J.M. (1997) Psychological factors affecting health after toxicological disasters. Clinical Psychology Review 17 (4) (pp.359-374).
Inskip, P., et al. (1997) Thyroid nodularity and cancer among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia . Radiation Research. 147: 225-235.
Ivanov, V.K., Gorski, A.I., Maksioutov, M.A., Tsyb, A.F. and Souchkevitch,G.N. (2001) Mortality among Chernobyl emergency workers: Estimation of radiation risks (preliminary analysis). Health Physics. 81:514-521.
Jaworowski Z., (Sept. 1999) Radiation Risk and Ethics. Physics Today. pp. 24-29
Knudsen, L.B. (1991) Legally induced abortions in Denmark after Chernobyl. Biomedicine and Pharmocotherapy 45 (pp 229-231).
Kononenko, N. "Duma Pro Chornobyl': Old Genres, New Topics." Journal of Folklore Research 29, no. 2 (1992): 133-54.
Makhijani, A. (1999) The Nuclear Power Deception: U.S. Nuclear Mythology From Electricity ”Too Cheap To Meter” To “Inherently Safe” Reactors. New York: Apex Press.
Marples, D. (2000) The demographic crisis in Belarus . Problems of Post-Communism 47: 16-27.
Marples, D. (1993) Chernobyl's lengthening shadow. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Sep 93, Vol. 49 Issue 7, p38.
Marples, D. (1996). The decade of despair: How the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown has affected Russian life. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 52(3) 22-31.
Marples, D. (1996). Chornobyl ten years later: The facts. Internet publication. Document URL: http://www.infoukes.com/history/chornobyl/marples.
Marshall E., (1990) Academy Panel Raises Radiation Risk Estimate. Science, vol. 247, pp. 22-23
Otake, M. and Schull, W. (1998) Review: Radiation-related brain damage and growth retardation among prenatally exposed atomic bomb survivors. In. J. Radiat. Biol. 74 (2): 159-171
Perry, B., Pollard, R., Blakley, T., Baker, W. & Vigilante, D. (1996) Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaption and use-dependent development of the brain: How states become traits. Infant Mental Health Journal
Pierce, D. et al. (1996) Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 12, Part 1. Cancer: 1950-1990, Radiation Research, 146: 1-27.
Pitman, R, Orr, S., Forgue, D., DeJong, J., Claiborn, J. (1987) Psychophysiologic assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder imagery in Vietnam combat veterans. Archives of General Psychiatry Vol 44 (11) pp. 970-975.
Preston , D., et. al. (1994) Cancer incidence among atomic bomb survivors. Part III: Leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma, 1950-1987. Radiation Research. 137: S68-S97.
Preston , D., Shimizu , Y., Pierce, D., Suyama, A. and Mabuchi, K. (2003) Studies of mortality of atomic bomb survivors. Report 13:Solid cancer and noncancer disease mortality: 1950-1997. Radiation Research. 160: 381-407.
Rahu, M., et al. (1997) The Estonian study of Chernobyl cleanup workers: II. Incidence of cancer and mortality. Radiation Research. 147:6 53-657.
Scanlan, M. "Literature Can Look Terror in the Eye and Measure Its Human Consequences." The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 21 2001, B11-13.
Shcherbak, Y. (April 1996) Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era. Scientific American, pp. 44-49.
Stezhko, V. and 36 others of the Chernobyl Thyroid Diseases Study Group of Belarus , Ukraine and the USA . (2004) A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: Objectives, design and methods. Radiation Research.161: 481-492.
Thompson, D., et al. (1994) Cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors. Part II: Solid Tumors, 1958-1987. Radiation Research 137: S17-S67.
Weinberg H., et al. (2001) Very high mutation rate in offspring of Chernobyl accident liquidators. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London series B-Biological Sciences. 268: (1471) 1001-1005 May, 2001.
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Baverstock, K. (2001) Chernobyl Accident 15 Years On: Report of a Mission Undertaken on the Behalf of the UNDP and UNICEF. Environmental Radiation and Public Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Project Office, PO Box 14, 00880, Helsinki, Finland.
The Chernobyl Forum. (2005) Chernobyl 's Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine . Retrieved from the web on February 1, 2006
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Co90 Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations, National Research Council (1990) Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR V). Washington D.C.: National Academies Press.
Forsberg, C. W. et al., 1989, Proposed and Existing Passive and Inherent Safety-Related Structures, Systems, and Components (Building Blocks) for Advanced Light-Water Reactors. Oak Ridge National Laboratory: ORNL-6554.
Furitsu, K., Sadamori, K., Inomata, M. and Murata, S. (2000) The Parallel Radiation Injuries of the Atomic-bomb Victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after 50 Years and the Chernobyl Victims after 10 Years. Chernobyl: Environmental, Health and Human Rights Implications, A Permanent Peoples Tribunal, Vienna, Austria, 12-15 April 1996. International Perspectives in Public Health 13:19-32.
IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). (1991). The International Chernobyl Report. Vienna : IAEA.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation. (2005). Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII) Report. Washington D.C. : National Academies Press.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1987, Report on the Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Table 6.3.
Permanent People’s Tribunal. 1996. Chernobyl : Environmental, health, and human rights implications. Vienna : International Medical Commission on Chernobyl .
Tarabrina, N., Lazebnaya, E., Zelonova, M., Lasko, N., Orr, S. & Pitman, R. (1993) Psychophysiological responses of Chernobyl liquidators during script-driven imagery. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Union of Concerned Scientists, 1990, Advanced Reactor Study, by MHB Technical Associates, Cambridge , MA .
United Nations Development Program & United Nations Children's Fund. (2002). The Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident. A Strategy for Recovery. Retrieved on December 28, 2005 , from http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/chernobyl.pdf
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. (2000) UNSCEAR 2000 Report to the General Assembly. Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation, vol. II, Effects. New York : United Nations Publication Sales No. E.00.IX.4, ISBN 92-1-142239-6.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,,1739339,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://www.chernobyl.info/ The international communications platform on the long-term consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident An entry on Chernobyl from Wikipedia, an extensive online encyclopedia.
http://whyfiles.org/index.html Created by the National Institute for Science Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo University of Michigan resources on nuclear physics.
http://glossary.dataenabled.com “The language of the nucleus, on-line edition: The world's largest nuclear glossary.”
http://www.brama.com/ukraine/chornbib.html An extensive annotated bibliography of Chernobyl readings,
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Bartlett, D. (Director/Producer). (2003). Days that Shook the World: The First Atomic Reaction/The Chernobyl Disaster [Television Series]. London , United Kingdom : BBC. Using the first atomic reaction by Enrico Fermi
Berthon, S. (Producer). (2004). Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl [Television Series]. London , United Kingdom : Discovery Networks Europe . A minute-by-minute accounting of the Chernobyl disaster from the perspective of those who were in the plant at the time.
De Leo, M. (Director/Producer). (2003) Chernobyl Heart [Documentary Film]. New York , NY : HBO Home Video. A 2004 Academy Award winning documentary, Chernobyl Heart was filmed over 2 years primarily in Belarus . The film focuses on the humanitarian work of Adi Roche, Executive Director of the Irish group Chernobyl Children's Project.
Also see the newly rebuilt CREECA Lending Library for more films and documentaries. Search the catalog for keyword 'chernobyl' or select it from the pull-down menu of 'Broad Subject Matter.'
Resources compiled by Dan Miner-Nordstrom, February 2006