“Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill's Strong in the Rain is a harrowing story of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that turned Japan upside down. They put a human face on the tragedy. This is contemporary journalism and history at its finest. A powerful read.” —Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Great Deluge and The Quiet World
“How bad was the Fukushima reactor disaster? How perilous the aftermath? Far worse than you realized. Mixing human drama with science and sociology, Birmingham and McNeill have compiled a deeply disturbing account of what the tsunami-triggered meltdown was like for the people of Japan.” —Jed Horne, author of Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
“Powerful and evocative. Birmingham and McNeill deftly weave together universal truths & tales about heroism, mortality, calamity and Japanese culture that will still be relevant long after the physical evidence of the devastation are covered up in dirt and concrete.” —Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice