Chernobyl

A Russian drone strike hit the protective covering over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s destroyed fourth reactor early Friday morning.

On Monday, the head of the United Nations’ atomic energy organization met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to alert him to the deteriorating situation at Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

A United Nations official issued a stern warning after Ukraine’s main nuclear plant was shelled, saying, “You are playing with fire.”

One of the newest developments for Kremlin’s threat and deterrence strategy is the 9M730 Burevestnik (NATO codename SSC-X-9 Skyfall); a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile with potential unlimited range that has Western analysts worried.

Russian troops have returned control of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl to the Ukrainians and left the heavily contaminated site early Friday. According to Ukrainian sources familiar with the matter, their retreat occurred approximately one month after taking it over. However, heavy fighting continues in and around the capital of Kyiv and other fronts. […]

Russian troops who captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have now left after obtaining signs of illness as they were allegedly exposed to a significant amount of radiation.

US President Joe Biden has announced that he will be deploying 7,000 additional US troops to Germany and a new set of hard-hitting economic and fiscal sanctions to Russia.

Nuclear power, once touted as the wave of the future that would eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels, has lost favor in much of the world after high profile incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima. Even in the United States, where nuclear power has been overwhelmingly safe, other issues, like the banning of MOX fuel and […]

North Korea was considered too poor, authoritarian and vulnerable to succeed with its nuclear and missile programs. And yet Pyongyang has acquired advanced nuclear weapons capabilities — and, at the end of November, tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. Why has North Korea succeeded when other countries such as Iraq and Libya have failed? Three factors are central to North Korea’s success. This […]

Late in the evening of April 26th, 1986, a safety test simulated a power station failure shut safety systems down at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in Soviet-controlled Ukraine. A combination of design flaws in the reactor and station personnel failing to adhere to established safety precautions during the test soon led to an […]

According to a report released by the French Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (IRSN) on Thursday, a cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe detected in recent weeks indicates that there has likely been an accident in a nuclear facility somewhere in Russia or Kazakhstan.  According to their estimation, the incident must have occurred at some […]

In recent months, the American THAAD missile defense system has garnered a great deal of attention, as its powerful radar array and kinetic projectiles are said to be capable of successfully defending an area the size of New Jersey from incoming ballistic missiles.  The United States has had a particular interest in intercepting inbound nukes […]