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 ...

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) hit the concrete shelter that contains the remains of Reactor 4, which exploded in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

A Russian high-explosive drone hit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, sparking fears of a nuclear disaster. In a statement, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said: "A Russian strike drone ...

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.

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 ...

In April 1986, a huge explosion erupted at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine. This series follows the stories of the men and women, who tried to contain the disaster ...