Word: chernobyl
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...satellites and space stations, a huge pond on which a few little ships make desultory voyages, and a large relief map of the U.S.S.R., with lights pinpointing major cities and prompting a sense of unfortunate irony. In each group there is almost always some black humorist who asks, "Is Chernobyl the one that's glowing brightest?" The American pavilion, dedicated at the last moment to the seven astronauts killed in the Challenger disaster, deals exclusively with space. But most Americans, and most others as well, have already seen much of the material on TV. Even a full-scale interior mock...
...most of the world, the Chernobyl nuclear accident was a disaster of terrifying proportions. But for the specialists struggling to save lives at Moscow Hospital No. 6, the mishap created a kind of medical classroom--a unique if horrific opportunity to learn how to cope with large-scale exposure to deadly radiation. So far, the lessons have been sobering. "This incident has demonstrated our very limited ability to respond to nuclear accidents," says Dr. Robert Gale, 40, a bone-marrow-transplant expert from UCLA who helped Soviet counterparts treat Chernobyl victims. "If we are very hard pressed to deal with...
...world that received the initial news with shock and foreboding, the explosion and fire at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear plant suddenly became as close as wind and rain could carry it last week--and as menacing as a nightmare. While Soviet authorities insisted that there was little to worry about outside the Ukraine and neighboring regions, the cloud of deadly radioactive dust from Unit No. 4 that first spread over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe now crossed oceans and land masses, falling on an ever widening range of food and water supplies in dozens of countries. It also continued...
Packed trains from the beleaguered Ukrainian capital streamed into Moscow during the week. Many Kiev passengers were arriving to join families for Friday celebrations of Victory Day, a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, but many others were fleeing radiation from Chernobyl. Spokesmen at Moscow's Kievsky Station said extra trains had to be added to handle the crush. Said a Kiev passenger who arrived with two young children and identified herself only as Svetlana: "We started to believe that it might be dangerous for our children at home. They can stay with their grandmother until we know...
...tasteless guffaw at the expense of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Donahue's cartoon, for the benefit of those who missed it, portrays a chagrined bear (emblazoned with a hammer and sickle) losing his fur while a nuclear power plant explodes in the backround. Viewing the Chernobyl disaster simply as a political embarassment to the Soviet government, rather than as a human tragedy, is repugnant. Whatever one's opinion of the Soviet government, it is incumbent upon us to sympathize with the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in a time of difficulty. Rama Kocherlakota GSAS Gerard Michael GSAS John March...