A fantastic but depressing, very depressing book simultaneously, very difficult to go through. But it gives different points of view and insights from the acute victims to the liquidators, firemen, soldiers, teachers, students, housewives, resettlers, camera recorders, photographers, writers, journalists, school children, young children. How they were affected and how they perceived the incident, and its aftermaths, its causes and people's behavior towards them and theirs towards those people.