WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...

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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In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...

EXCLUSIVE: The safety dome meant to seal Chernobyl is being targeted by Putin and it could endanger thousands of children ...

Three books on the tragedy provide a detailed understanding on what transpired, drawing on Soviet archives, KGB documents, ...

Indeed, our appetite for scare stories about mutant animals is obscuring the reality: the most significant and fascinating ...

In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...