About the author
Adam Higginbotham is a British journalist and author known for detailed narrative accounts of technological disasters and the organizations surrounding them.
Midnight in Chernobyl reconstructed the 1986 nuclear accident. Challenger traces the space-shuttle program, the warnings around the solid-rocket booster joints, the 1986 loss of the crew, and the investigation that followed.
Where to start
Start with Challenger for the shuttle disaster and institutional decision-making, or Midnight in Chernobyl for Higginbotham’s earlier history of nuclear catastrophe.
