The map resurfaced as nuclear fears grew after the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine was hit by a Russian drone. The plant was the scene of the world's worst ever nuclear meltdown in 1986.

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of things in a science fiction film – green glowing men, deformed animals ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

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A drone with an explosive warhead has smashed a hole in the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. The plant's chief engineer, Alexander Titarchuk, said there was a ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts were raised again on Friday after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the plant at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.