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