In an interview with Le Monde, historian Galia Ackerman describes what happened before the Chernobyl disaster and the incompetence of the Soviet regime, which deliberately hid the truth about the ...
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is ...
Today marks four decades since what’s called the world’s worst nuclear plant disaster—Chernobyl. APR news, in collaboration ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...
IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 ...
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...
Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...
Today more than 300 liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident came to the town of ...
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