Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
- Status
- Ended
- Production
- CNN Original Series, Windfall Films, National Geographic Channels International
Keywords
- technology
- radiation
- cold war
- investigation
- crisis
- miniseries
- educational
- environment
- contamination
- pripyat
- catastrophe
- power plant
- chernobyl disaster (1986)
- ukraine
- hazard
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Top Cast
Adam Higginbotham as Self
Galia Ackerman as Self
Wyatt Andrews as Self
Olena Mokhnyk as Self
Karena Kalmbach as Self
Top Crew
Alex Gruz · Composer
Ian Strang · Editor
Benedict Jackson · Editor
Tom Cook · Producer
Alyona Synegina · Producer
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