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

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

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 ...

RUSSIAN missiles flying near to the Chernobyl nuclear plant are risking a “major accident”, Ukraine has said. A top state ...

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

In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near ...

Russia has been launching drones and missiles on a flight path near the disused Chernobyl nuclear plant during attacks on ...

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

Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the ...

They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...

"On April 26, 1986, the men who responded to Chernobyl thought they were fighting a fire. They weren’t. In this episode, we ...