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Think HBO’s Chernobyl Is Brutal? Check Out This Haunting Animation That Aired on TV in the 1950s

HBO’s new miniseries Chernobyl has gotten a lot of attention for its gory realism. Radiation from a nuclear power plant disaster is brutal for the human body, to say the least. But the explicit nature ...
People

How Chernobyl, the Biggest Nuclear Disaster in History, Still Affects Ukraine 33 Years Later

The HBO miniseries about the 1986 crisis aired its finale Monday WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from HBO’s Chernobyl. The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb ...
Newsweek

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Fact vs. Fiction: How Close Does the Miniseries Come to the Real 1986 Nuclear Accident?

Both Soviet nuclear scientist Valery Legasov (played by Jared Harris) and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina (played by Stellan Skarsgård) are real people; however, Soviet nuclear physicist ...