A DRONE armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant early today, damaging the structure and briefly starting a fire, in an attack Kiev blamed on Russia.

The tensions were aggravated by hostile rhetoric and "spy scandals." Meanwhile, the Chernobyl nuclear accident had been a vivid reminder to all of us of the nuclear danger that we faced.

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But starting in November 1985, Gorbachev began a ...

play Gorbachev and the 'Iron Lady' Gorbachev struck up a frank and fierce relationship with British PM, Margaret Thatcher. In 1984 Gorbachev travelled to Britain as part of a trade delegation.

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...

“Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological disaster in an abandoned corner of Ukraine, but the potential adverse health implications are much wider,” said Norman ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old ... when he was still general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. That catastrophe also contributed to ...

Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine ... herself in the presence of General Secretary Gorbachev. If that storyline seems unrealistic for ...