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Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…
Chornobyl nuclear disaster was tragedy in the making, declassified KGB files show
[quote]Declassified KGB documents reveal that the Chornobyl catastrophe was no accident: it was a tragedy, years in the…
Fears of radioactive disaster as Russian proxies plan to flood nuclear test site in Donbas
Nuclear explosions in Ukraine In total, the USSR conducted 239 peaceful nuclear explosions on its territory during in 1965–1988 under…
Russia’s nuclear threats and spy games
Last week it was reported that three Russians were arrested on espionage charges. Two Russian citizens and one naturalized US…
Chornobyl destroyed the Soviet Union
Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed…
Ukraine’s Chornobyl, like Russia’s Chelyabinsk before it: Symbols of untenable Soviet moral decay
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Power Plant disaster. On April 25, 1986, workers…