Historic disaster revisited: CNN launches a four-part Chernobyl docuseries marking 40 years since the nuclear disaster, airing over two consecutive Sundays. Celebrity and culture focus: Netflix debuts ...

It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Editor-in-chief of the information website Desk Russie, journalist and historian Galia Ackerman is the author of several books on Russia and the former Soviet Union. She recently published Le KGB à ...

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 ...

Chernobyl. Living Land, a documentary dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and One for Two, a drama about the heroic feat of pilots Andrei Nichiporchik and Nikita Kukonenko.

Reason magazine's Ronald Bailey argued Tuesday on the RCP podcast that the lesson of Chernobyl is not that nuclear power is ...

On June 29, 1966, the USSR Council of Ministers issued a decree approving a plan for commissioning nuclear power plants through 1977. The document specifically included the construction of nuclear ...

THE CONVERSATION via AP — On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human ...