HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Drives Home The Deadly Perils Of Statism
HBO’s excellent new miniseries is a harrowing look at the hidden dangers of authoritarian government and those who dare to stand against it.
By Joshua Lawson
May 24, 2019
The opening lines of HBO’s “Chernobyl†miniseries set the tone for what’s at stake during its terrifying, unflinching look at the worst nuclear plant disaster in history:
‘What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies then we no longer recognize the truth at all.’
On April 26, 1986, two explosions rocked the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Soviet Ukraine. The devastating event released 400 times the amount of radioactive fallout than the bombing of Hiroshima and at one point threatened the lives of millions of Europeans as far away as Germany.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/24/hbos-chernobyl-drives-home-deadly-perils-statism/
