Adam Higginbotham (born 1968 in

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) is a British journalist who is the former U.S. correspondent for

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Magazine and former editor-in-chief of ''

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''. He has also served as a contributing writer for''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Higginbotham is the author of ''Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster'', published in 2019 by

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, which received the 2020 William E. Colby Award for Military and Intelligence Writing, the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and was selected one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by

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