April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...
The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the aftermath of the ...
Forty years after the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, those who were at the very centre recall the deadly details.
Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored and almost toy-like in appearance — graze in ...
In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...
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