On April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions ...
Three books on the tragedy provide a detailed understanding on what transpired, drawing on Soviet archives, KGB documents, ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a ...
Chernobyl is often described as the most expensive disaster in history, with an estimated cost of $180 billion (£133 billion) ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...
After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50,000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town with a former ...
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