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

THE CONVERSATION via AP — 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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, radioactive ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, ...