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On the 40 year anniversary, here are 5 books to better understand Chornobyl nuclear disaster
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On the 40 year anniversary, here are 5 books to better understand Chornobyl nuclear disaster

by Kate Tsurkan

On April 26, 1986, the explosion at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant forever changed the lives of millions in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Although Communist authorities initially tried to suppress news of the disaster even within the Soviet Union, radioactive fallout was soon thereafter detected by neighboring European countries, and the entire world took notice. The catastrophe became a critical turning point, exposing the flaws in the Soviet system and hastening the Soviet

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A child sits on a swing in front of a residential building damaged by a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022.

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