Chernobyl Archives - Public Seminar

Nuclear Russia and Its Enemies

Paul Josephson on the Russian peaceful—and not-so-peaceful—atom

April 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Paul Josephson

In an interview with Anastasia Shteinert, author Paul Josephson his new book "Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture."...

Enduring the Chernobyl Disaster

An interview with Kate Brown

April 7, 2020 • by Damian Roos and Kate Brown

Damien Roos [DR]: This is your second book centered on the topic of nuclear energy. Did you set out with a suspicion that the impact of the Chernobyl disaster had been underreported? Kate Brown [KB]: I did, yes. In some ways, this book is a sequel to this first book I ...

The Traumas of Chernobyl

May 2, 2016 • by Michael Marder

At the time of the explosion, I was aboard a train to the southern Russian resort town of Anapa, where I spent nearly two months on the shore of the Black Sea receiving medical treatment for asthma induced by severe seasonal allergies. There, unbeknownst to me, I too was exposed ...