A Liquidator Searches for the Truth at Chernobyl 25 Years On

Glushchenko near an icon-like painting of a black-faced woman with an infant signed “Madonna of Chernobyl.” Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a three-part series about the Chernobyl disaster. Twenty-five years ago, Alexander Glushchenko volunteered to join the “liquidators,” an army of 600,000 who put their lives on the line to clean up the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But sitting in his Moscow […]