Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster

Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union’s Chornobyl nuclear plant ...
Milwaukee Independent

Chernobyl at 40: What secret files from the Soviet nuclear disaster reveal about political deception

Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown ...
Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsOpinion

From “Soviet” to “Japanese” nuclear disasters: the pitfalls of cultural exceptionalism

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or ...

Nuclear Weapons - An International History by David Holloway: Serious treatment of the fundamentally absurd

David Holloway, a Stanford University-based but Dublin-born historian of the nuclear age, is more cautious about how ...