What actually happened 20 years ago at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant? Were the true scale of the disaster downplayed - or, conversely, exaggerated? Is radiation really as dangerous as people think? And has a direct connection between its small doses and cancer been proven? What is true and what is false in the terrible reports about “monstrous mutations” and “countless victims of Chernobyl”? Should we believe the common accusations about the “terrible atom that destroys all living things,” “demonic nuclear scientists” and “nightmarish nuclear power plants”? Or is all this just superstitions and myths, forcibly driven into the public consciousness during the ideological war waged against the USSR? This book is unique. You have never read THIS about Chernobyl. The author of this sensational study, physicist, historian and philosopher Sergei Pereslegin, famous for his previous works “World War II: War between Realities”, “Pacific Premiere”, etc., is the FIRST TIME considering the Chernobyl tragedy not only as a real one man-made disaster, but also as a whole complex of myths imposed on the whole world, but primarily on the citizens of the USSR.