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Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster

  • Written by Lauren Cassidy, Lecturer German and Russian Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA German security guard checks for radiation after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986.Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted...

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