At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Video games such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Call of Duty imagine the zone as a lawless wasteland, with bandits and spies fighting in Soviet-era ghost ... to Chernobyl, forcing a single night-shift ...