On Feb. 24, 2022, the day the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, officers from the Russian National Guard and regular armed forces arrived at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in a column of fighting ...

There are some blackly comic observations made in the HBO documentary “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes,” one being that only a totalitarian regime could have prevented the kind of widespread panic that ...

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...

Not a laugh riot, Chernobyl is not a title that prepares you for good times and happy puppies. Though there are some puppies — oh god, I can’t talk about it! The horror of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster ...

The catastrophic explosions at the Vladimir I Lenin plant on 26 April 1986, caused by a safety test that went wrong, produced history’s worst nuclear disaster, releasing radioactivity into the air ...