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Y.I. Chazov, Minister of Health, to the CPSU CC, 'Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl AEhS'

A summary of the measures taken by health ministries in the aftermath of the accident, laid out in narrative format.

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to…

U.S. Air Force Project RAND, Implications of Large-Yield Nuclear Weapons, 10 July 1952, Top Secret, Excised Copy

One of the implications of the Harmon report, that 133 atomic bombs were not enough to break the Soviet Union, may have fed into the pressure for the…

Treaty Between The United States Of America And The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics On The Elimination Of Their Intermediate-Range And Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty)

The treaty marked the first agreement between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals, rather than simply limit their growth. It…

Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin

Report rom Gagarin, the first person to orbit earth

The continental scale of the Chernobyl accident

The accident involving reactor meltdown and massive release of radioactivity occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant situated…

Technician checking our car for radiation

Technician checking a car for radiation, but the monitor was off so that no one knew if there was real radiation on it.

Statement by the President regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

Statement by President Eisenhower on signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act

Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Soviet Nuclear Reactor Accident at Chernobyl

In response to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Reagan administration established a U.S. interagency task force, led by the Environmental…