Nationalité : Ukraine
Né(e) à : Nijni Novgorod , le 23/05/1957
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Serhii Plokhy is professor of history at Harvard University and a leading authority on the Cold War and nuclear history. His books include the Baillie Gifford award-winner Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, Nuclear Folly, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire.
The Promotheus of the monument turned out not to have the control of the fire he unleashed and serves today as a symbol of human arrogance rather than the triumph of humankind over the forcesof nature.