At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

This was significant because the Soviets were denying that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl had taken place. Satellite imagery, it was now clear, could show events and places in countries where ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Grits captured both photos and video that brought home the hardscrabble life ... Karmanau had long followed the story of Chernobyl, whose radioactive cloud poisoned part of his native Belarus. His ...

While the Chernobyl Humidifier has attracted attention for its innovative design, some may feel that the subject matter is not suitable for a home appliance. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster had long ...

If you've never heard the name Ulana Khomyuk prior to the release of the HBO series "Chernobyl," you're not alone. While most of the show's characters were based on real-life participants in the ...