Adam Higginbotham

Author of New York Times bestsellers MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL and CHALLENGER

[Adam Higginbotham @HigginbothamA]

Last week Natalia Romanova was killed by a Russian Shahed drone attack on her apartment building in Troieshchyna, Kyiv. She was 73.

[Adam Higginbotham @HigginbothamA]

Valery Khodemchuk, with his wife Natalia and her sisters, in the winter of 1972. Valery became the first victim of the Chernobyl accident, killed by the explosion of Reactor No.4 thirty-five years ago today. (Chernobyl National Museum, Kyiv)

[BookPage @bookpage]

As another year of excellent reading draws to a close, these are the 10 books that brought us the most delight. @avonbooks @doubledaybooks @riverheadbooks @randomhouse @DelReyBooks @avidreaderpress @HarperTeen @razorbillbooks @soho_press @BIGPictureBooks
https://t.co/cefkesg2Jr

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Natalia Grabarchuk, former Kindergarten teacher, now an anti-aircraft gunner, takes down her first Russian missile, this morning, amidst one of Russia's largest missle attacks on Ukraine, with a MANPADS.

[Meduza in English @meduza_en]

Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.
https://t.co/uLHB2qCfHU

[Meduza in English @meduza_en]

Apple users registered in Russia suddenly cannot access several podcasts produced by independent journalists. It's the latest instance of the tech giant's apparent (and unofficial) compliance with Russia's federal censor. https://t.co/rJnPknm2IG

[Kirkus Reviews @KirkusReviews]

The 2025 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence shortlist has been revealed, including works by Percival Everett, Kaveh Akbar, Jailing Tang, @HigginbothamA, @emilynussbaum, and @KevinFedarko. The winners will be announced on Jan. 26, 2025. @ALALibrary https://t.co/DtNnEw3ioP

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

An astonishing 87% of the continental United States is experiencing abnormally dry or worse drought conditions following one of the driest months in U.S. history.

Alaska is the ONLY state not experiencing drought conditions.

[Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh]

Here we go:

[Adam Higginbotham @HigginbothamA]

@heybriandawson Thanks, Brian! It’s great to hear from you!

[Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg]

In case you’re interested: https://t.co/B7GA1tp35E

[Luke Harding @lukeharding1968]

My colleague @AlessioMamo is a brilliant war photographer. The picture top left - of newly mobilised Ukrainian soldiers going into battle for the first time - is reminiscent of Don McCullin's famous image of a shell-shocked GI in Vietnam. The eyes capture the horror and pathos

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Starting in 20th century, attacking science and portraying scientists as public enemies became a signature of totalitarianism. There is a saying attributed to Bertrand Russell: “Without science, democracy is impossible” and Maxim Gorky “Without science, democracy has no future”

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

This is what should be the final sign of an utterly failed policy. The Russians are attacking civilians throughout Ukraine with weapons armed with thermobaric warheads, whose only purpose is to kill and terrorise. And yet Ukraine can’t strike military targets in Russia.

[Dylan Marchetti @DylanMarchetti]

I can think of more than a few major media company CEOs who, in the last 72 hours, could really have taken a lesson from the leadership and convictions that MUBI and Efe are showing here.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Into the great beyond!

Space shuttle Discovery was on its way to space for its second time 40 years ago this morning. During STS-51A, two satellites were deployed, and two malfunctioning satellites were captured and returned in Discovery's cargo bay.

📷 Taken by John Young

[Ukrainska Pravda in English @pravda_eng]

🕯️ Russian bomb kills one-year-old boy, his mother and great-grandmother in Zaporizhzhia https://t.co/pHo0Jq5ZC7

[Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @OhGodWhatNowPod]

Thank you, Podcast Comedy Gods!! 🍾🥳🕺🏻

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Russia is ISIS with better weapons.

The russian government tried to blow up commercial aircraft heading to Canada and the USA but state sponsored terrorism is being treated like a 3rd tier news story.

[Sir John Chipman @chipmanj]

Fascinating that there are some 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia and ‘leaders’ in the West are concerned that helping Ukraine target Russian positions in Russia that launch attacks against Ukrainian civilians would be escalatory and turn Western countries into co-combatants. Russia can escalate with North Korean and Iranian help to its cold heart’s content, but in the European theatre, whose stability is a ‘core interest’ of the West, it is solemnly declared that NATO states should not get directly involved. Middle East and Asian bad actors have unilaterally obtained for themselves a multiple entry visa to Europe with no restrictions to kill Ukrainians. Western leaders cry foul but keep long range attack missiles and other key capability on the sidelines. The political-military muscle memory of the Cold War has so dramatically dissipated that strategic arthritis has set in to the detriment of Europe’s security.

[Adam Higginbotham @HigginbothamA]

@Aflynn1234O Thanks! That's very kind of you! And... yes, I do!