Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? As a researcher in visual culture, I find myself returning to this question again and again as I examine films, TV shows, documentaries, visual novels and ...

Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...

IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 ...