As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

One night in April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down in Ukraine. Since then, there has been much reporting about the disaster, but no book has so ably ...

As bleak historical dramas go, none is more masterfully macabre than HBO’s acclaimed miniseries Chernobyl. The show recounts one of the biggest human-made disasters of modern times from the ...

The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world’s worst nuclear ...