On Saturday, April 26, 1986, at 1:20 a.m., the world was still in order. For a few more minutes: In the control room of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl power plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, ...

A single person pressing the wrong button set off the nuclear catastrophe which shocked the globe and contaminated thousands of homes with radioactive material. In the early morning of April 26, 1986, ...