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

Descendants of the dogs exposed to powerful blasts of radiation from the Soviet Chernobyl plant meltdown in 1986 might hold the key to what’s needed to survive a nuclear blast. Scientists are ...

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IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 – ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A German security guard checks for radiation after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...