Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes and nuclear meltdowns highlight the most effective depictions of disaster on screen ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

AS a radiation-ravaged wilderness since Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor blew 40 years ago, I had expected the inhabitants in the toxic Exclusion Zone to have fled decades ago. But there was Hanna ...

On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about a two-hour ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...

A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear ...

The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...