Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl ...

Chernobyl Roulette. By Serhii Plokhy. W.W. Norton; 240 pages; $29.99. Allen Lane; £25 I N THE SMALL hours of February 24th 2022, Valentyn Heiko received a phone call at work.

He also sees the Chernobyl disaster as the first nail in the coffin of the communist system before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Soviet Union would finally collapse in 1991.

Higginbotham spends the first part of the book narrating a pre-disaster idyll filled with technological optimism, glowing with possibility. Named for a nearby medieval town, the Chernobyl nuclear ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in history. The ...

On April 26, 1986, an experiment at the Chernobyl plant went awry, causing an explosion and fire that sent radioactivity into the atmosphere, resulting in 31 deaths and the evacuation of 40,000 ...

Thirty years ago the Chernobyl nuclear reactor triggered what would become the world's worst nuclear accident. We know that today, but back in the waning days of April, 1986, there was a lot that ...

Ukrainians mark Chernobyl disaster amid nuclear threats By: Vasilisa Stepanenko, The Associated Press Posted: 11:18 AM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2023 Last Modified: 11:40 AM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2023 ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Thirty-six years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that Russian troops risked causing an ...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, euronews spoke to three people who worked in and around the site of the power station in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Natalia Manzurova ...

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals. In the aftermath of the nuclear accident, vast swathes of northern Ukraine ...

(Mr Plokhy’s book partly inspired an award-winning television series in 2019.) “Chernobyl Roulette” offers similarly penetrating insight into the people involved and the decisions made.