© Aym96/Wikimedia In all my life, it never occurred to me that I would have to start this part of my life. At least not at the age that I currently am, just into my fifties. I have to start … Read more
An aerial view from a plane shows a New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a tour to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine April 3, 2021. … Read more
Below is the chapter on Chernobyl from Десять лет великих потрясений (Ten Years of Great Upheavals), which is the memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhov, first published in 1995. Ryzhkov was the Soviet Premier from 1985 to 1990 and the head of … Read more