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A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and…

Caricature of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wearing a dark suit and two medals. As a Communist party official and chairman of the Presidium, he dominated the government between 1964 and his death in 1982, implementing his beliefs that military and…

The original sarcophagus at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a temporary, emergency structure built to contain radioactive materials after the 1986 disaster

A plaque honors the men and women of the tuna industry who helped build San Diego’s Little Italy.

The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

The famous Little Italy sign in San Diego California

Piazza Basilone is a public gathering space and war memorial in the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego

This mural commemorates two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role as a center of the 1960s hippie movement

A satirical sign posted outside the Crawdad Hole restaurant in Flowood, Mississippi. Hippies, demonstrative members of a disaffected youth subculture, were more of a nuisance to retaurateurs in the 1960s than of late, in the second decade of the 21st…