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...only to provoke greater international unease and outrage. "We do not need an atomic bomb," Saddam said. "We have the dual chemical. Whoever threatens us with the atomic bomb, we will annihilate him with the dual chemical." Recalling Israel's devastating 1981 air strike against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, Saddam warned, "I swear to God we will let our fire eat half of Israel if it tries to wage anything against Iraq...
...wanted to fly over the nuclear plant. "I agreed, of course," recalls Kostin, 53. "I wanted to prove that I was a man." He also proved he was a good journalist by becoming the first photographer on the scene. "There was still smoke coming out of the reactor," he says, "but I managed to get a few shots off. You could actually feel the silence. It was like a cemetery...
Since then, Kostin has returned to the reactor site six times and has traveled extensively through the contaminated regions. His mission: to document the world's worst nuclear-plant catastrophe. "People have the right to know," says Kostin, who devotes a third of his time to covering Chernobyl's aftermath. "The technology of atomic energy is not perfect. This could happen anywhere." Kostin lives in Kiev, 100 km (62 miles) from Chernobyl, and was a successful construction engineer before turning photographer at age 36. His trips to Chernobyl and its environs have deeply disturbed him. The children he saw haunt...
...weapons and satellites. The Iraqis had even secured $3 billion in unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro to finance the purchase of industrial products in the U.S. The Iraqis also possessed about 25 lbs. of enriched uranium salvaged from the Osirak nuclear reactor, which was destroyed by Israeli warplanes in a surprise raid in June...
Four years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, an exclusive set of pictures by Soviet photographer Igor Kostin shows that the fallout is still being felt. Populated areas near the reactor remain heavily contaminated. Human health problems are on the rise, and farm animals are being born with horrible deformities, possibly caused by radiation...