Chernobyl disaster
1986 · Event
Reactor 4 explodes at Chernobyl; worst civilian nuclear accident in history; corrodes Soviet legitimacy.
On these timelines: Chernobyl, Master, Russia & the USSR, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Fall of the Soviet Union
More from Chernobyl
- The safety test that destroyed Reactor 4 (1986)
- Pripyat is evacuated (1986)
- A Swedish alarm exposes the secret (1986)
- The liquidators (1986)
- The first responders take fatal doses (1986)
- The sarcophagus seals Reactor 4 (1986)
- Gorbachev breaks the silence (1986)
- The Chernobyl exclusion zone (1986)
Around 1986
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)