Australian Left Review
Article Title
After Chernobyl: Peace, rights and freedom
Abstract
When we gathered earlier this year to commemorate those who perished in the first nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we were compelled to add the name of Chernobyl to our deliberations. Chernobyl was not a deliberate act of policy, but an accident. As an accident, it was much less serious than it might have been, and certainly less serious than it would have been, were it not for the supreme courage of those Soviet firemen who prevented the spread of the conflagration from one reactor to the others at the cost of their own lives.
This paper has been withdrawn.