A Chernobyl liquidator pushes a baby in a carriage who was found during the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 @facethenation
Chernobyl disaster, accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, the worst disaster in the history of nuclear power generation.
The disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in the former Soviet Union. The explosion on April 26, 1986, was not reported by Soviet authorities for three days, and then only after winds had carried the fallout across Europe and Swedish experts had gone public with their concerns.
About 600,000 people, often referred to as Chernobyl’s “liquidators,” were sent in to fight the fire at the nuclear plant and clean up the worst of its contamination. Thirty workers died either from the explosion or from acute radiation sickness within several months. The accident exposed millions in the region to dangerous levels of radiation and forced a wide-scale, permanent evacuation of hundreds of towns and villages in Ukraine and Belarus.
Nobody canceled a May Day parade in Kiev that saw thousands of people walking in columns along the streets, with songs, flowers and Soviet leaders' portraits, covered with invisible clouds of fatal radiation on May 1, 1986.
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The disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in the former Soviet Union. The explosion on April 26, 1986, was not reported by Soviet authorities for three days, and then only after winds had carried the fallout across Europe and Swedish experts had gone public with their concerns.
About 600,000 people, often referred to as Chernobyl’s “liquidators,” were sent in to fight the fire at the nuclear plant and clean up the worst of its contamination. Thirty workers died either from the explosion or from acute radiation sickness within several months. The accident exposed millions in the region to dangerous levels of radiation and forced a wide-scale, permanent evacuation of hundreds of towns and villages in Ukraine and Belarus.
Nobody canceled a May Day parade in Kiev that saw thousands of people walking in columns along the streets, with songs, flowers and Soviet leaders' portraits, covered with invisible clouds of fatal radiation on May 1, 1986.
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In 1979, there were 250 serious crimes reported in the New York subway system – per week. There were six murders in the first two months alone. No other subway in the world was more crime-ridden and infamous.
New Yorker Willy Spiller braved the labyrinth transport system for a photography series that says so much about the modern tone and texture of the world's most iconic city.
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New Yorker Willy Spiller braved the labyrinth transport system for a photography series that says so much about the modern tone and texture of the world's most iconic city.
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A worker in the assembly plant of car maker Iran National, Tehran, 1977 @facethenation
Elvis Presley waits for his breakfast while a lady, who can't sit at a segregated lunch counter, waits for hers, 1956 @facethenation
On April 25, 1945, American and Soviet troops met at the River Elbe, marking an important step toward the end of World War II in Europe @facethenation
Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II, just after his trial in Delhi and before his departure for exile in Rangoon, 1858. He is the only Mughal emperor to be photographed @facethenation
Confetti pours from skyscrapers in Chicago's financial district on May 1, 1970, as Apollo 13 astronauts ride in a motorcade during a parade in their honor @facethenation
Soviet girl Maria Shalneva, corporal of the 87th separate Road Maintenance Battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945 @facethenation
U.S. combat soldiers reading newspapers with 'Hitler Dead' headline on May 2, 1945 @facethenation
German stormtroops training in a dummy trench system near Sedan, France, May 1917 @facethenation
In 1922 Iranian government purchased its first aircraft from Germany. Junkers over Tehran, 1925 @facethenation