Putin's war is raising risk of another Chernobyl, says historian who inspired hit TV show

Serhii Plokhy's account of the 1986 disaster stunned readers and TV audiences. Now his new book warns that the threat of nuclear terror has only increasedThere are, Serhii Plokhy says, not many amusing stories to come out of the war between Russia and his native Ukraine. But he couldn't help but have the bleakest of laughs at one item of news from the last week.It was prompted by a statement from the Russian foreign ministry. Faced with the prospect of Ukrainian forces advancing across the border towards a Russian nuclear power station in Kursk, the ministry called for urgent intervention from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Continue reading...