She went on to found Chernobyl Children International, which became one of the most significant and sustained humanitarian ...

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The April 26, 1986 explosion of the Number 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is often considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in history, one that has been covered countless times.

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? As a researcher in visual culture, I find myself returning to this question again and again as I examine films, TV shows, documentaries, visual novels and ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, Colm Flynn meets Irish humanitarian Adi Roche, whose Christian faith inspired decades of work with children affected by the fallout. Show more Forty years ago ...