WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One button was pressed at Chernobyl, but the real horror was how fast ordinary lives turned into ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the Chernobyl disaster, detailing his experiences and the lasting impact of the tragedy on Ukraine ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky reflects on the Chernobyl disaster's legacy, capturing the silence, sacrifice, and danger ...

The white-coated Soviet scientist in an old public information film could not have been more reassuring.

By Tom Balmforth LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Russia has repeatedly launched drones and missiles on a flight path near the ...