Thirty years ago, on May 14, 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev broke his 18-day silence on the Chornobyl nuclear accident. In his 25-minute speech broadcast on Soviet television, Mr. Gorbachev reported than nine persons had died as a result of the disaster and that 299 were hospitalized with radiation sickness of varying severities. “I don’t … Continue reading May 14, 1986