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South Korean Marines
South Korean Marines waiting to go aboard the U.S.S. Pickaway near Pusan, Korea, during Korean War.
Korean War Military Personnel
Photograph of a tank and military personnel during the Korean War.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (2015) 68
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Excursion near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Chernobyl - TOUR excursion near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Sarcophagus
NSC-Oct-2017
The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Through the IAEA's International Chernobyl Project, some 200 scientists from 25 countries and seven international organizations participated in field visits in 1990-91 to assess the radiological consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Here a…
Minutes of CC CPSU Politburo Session (Anatoly S. Chernyaev notes)
Excerpts from Politburo sessions reveal a rare internal blame-shifting "fight" among agency representatives. Gorbachev criticizes nuclear industry leaders and scientists for poor decisions, particularly placing nuclear plants near cities, despite…
National Security Council Jack Matlock Memo on Strategy for US-Soviet Relations
In a memo to John Poindexter, Jack Matlock highlights Gorbachev’s public arms control proposals, the Soviet “PR fiasco” over Chernobyl, and cautions against overexploiting Soviet missteps to avoid backlash. He suggests indirect ways to leverage the…