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The official position of the State is that a global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union. They told the Germans that thehighest detected level of radiation was 2,000 roentgen. They gave themthe propaganda number. That robot wasnever going to work
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The official position of the State
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is that a global nuclear catastrophe
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is not possible in the Soviet Union
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They told the Germans that the highest detected level of radiation
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was 2 000 roentgen
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They gave them the propaganda number
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That robot was never going to work
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Movie Summary
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.