A decade after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chornobyl power station is still operating. Death and disease rates continue to rise, and Ukraine and Belarus are struggling to deal with the formidable legacy it inherited from the Soviet Union by DAVID R. MARPLES THE DISASTER AT THE Chornobyl nuclear power station has probably generated […]

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David R. Marples

David R. Marples is a professor of Russian and East European history and currently chairman of the department of history and classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of 16 single-authored...