Margaret Thatcher on lack of information on Chernobyl
- Title
- Margaret Thatcher on lack of information on Chernobyl
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 3 May 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:02:54
- Description
- UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher on the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union. She compares the USSR with the USA, which immediately disclosed information following the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and blames communism for the lack of Soviet information.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher
- Keywords
- Accidents; USA; Politics; USSR; International relations; Communism; Access to information; Nuclear safety; Disasters (events); Nuclear power; Nuclear reactors; Space shuttles; Challenger; South Korea; Chernobyl; Dissemination of information
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