On the night of April 28, 1986, Radio Moscow broadcast a terse announcement that an accident had taken place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: “One of the atomic reactors has been damaged.

It has been more than 35 years since the fourth reactor at Chernobyl’s eponymous nuclear power plant exploded, killing dozens immediately, thousands in the aftermath, and rendering nearly 1,000 square ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As tensions between the two capitals begin to reach Cold War levels, accidents such as the K-431 incident are important reminders that events can and will happen that ...