Nearly 80 years since Hiroshima and 40 years since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine, some citizens of the world have become complacent about the
“Plokhy writes that instead of mastery and clear-headedness, President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ‘marched from one mistake to another’ during the Cuban missile crisis.”
Why did Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant explode on April 26, 1986? Was it operator error? Was it a design flaw? Should we look deeper into the Soviet system for the cause?
