The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture.
Discover the definitive truths, lies, and cover-ups behind the world's greatest humanitarian disaster. 33 years ago, at 1:23 am on the morning of April 26, 1986, the entire world came to a screeching halt as Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy station exploded. The horrors that unfolded, as a result, are better left imagined - thousands of lives were lost, thousands more were poisoned with radiation, an entire city was evacuated and the Soviet Union was never the same again.