Mikhail Gorbachev had been Soviet leader for only 13 months when the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened. He describes how the authorities responded and reflects on the lessons from the disaster. I ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Soviet Union’s final leader and is credited with transitioning the former country, and Eastern Europe, to post-communist governance, died Tuesday. Foreign ...

Updated: March 24, 2011 At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station erupted in a volcano of deadly radioactivity that rained on adjacent farms and towns, on ...

The word Chernobyl refers to the Chernobyl disaster which was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in the Soviet Union. 3 ...

The IAEA’s director-general on why Iran is his ‘biggest preoccupation’ — and the challenges of safeguarding Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine ...

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Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.

By Vladimir Soldatkin, Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -The head of Russia's nuclear energy ...

A strike on Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant could trigger a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl, the head of Russia's state atomic agency has warned. Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev sounded the ...

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