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Oct 2, 2022 · Sukhodolia says the air was cleaner; the jobs were easier. By the 1980s, a fifth of Ukraine's energy was nuclear. Now it's almost two-thirds. But because nuclear was first and foremost a...
- Julian Hayda
The decision by Ukraine to give up the nuclear weapons was debated when Russia, one of the parties of the agreement, invaded Ukraine.
Jan 26, 2024 · • Ukraine lacked the resources to maintain the nearly 1,700 Soviet nuclear weapons on its soil, many of them on intercontinental ballistic missiles that were nearing the end of their service...
May 15, 2024 · Recently declassified documents demonstrate that Ukrainian nuclear scientists were among the first in the USSR to propose the correct fundamental design for the atomic bomb. The history of Ukraine’s public relationship with nuclear weapons provides an interesting case study on the influence of a country’s population on state nuclear policy.
- Viktor Brukhanov. Director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. Viktor Brukhanov at a sitting of the USSR Supreme Court, 1987. Viktor Brukhanov had devoted most of his adult life to the communist dream of bringing electricity to the USSR.
- Anatoly Dyatlov. Deputy chief engineer for operations at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station. Anatoly Dyatlov (seated, leaning forward) is among six defendants attending trial for their role in the Chernobyl disaster.
- Leonid Toptunov. Senior Reactor Control Engineer, Fifth Shift, Reactor No. 4. Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control engineer at the Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant when it exploded on April 26, 1986, mourns over his grave at Mitino cemetery in Moscow.
- Valery Legasov. First deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. Valery Legasov, Nuclear Energy Institute First Deputy Director (right), was active investigation expert of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
Dec 6, 2023 · For three years in the early 1990s, Washington encouraged Kyiv to abandon its nuclear arsenal. In December 1994, having finally gotten the upper hand, the United States provided Ukraine with...
Apr 27, 2021 · Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first physician-responder to the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine on April 26, 1986.
