Chernobyl - Twenty Years On.

Twenty years ago today, on April 26th 1986, the disaster occurred at the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl - resulting in some five million people living on radioactive land - and triggering off a wave of cancers across Europe.

We should think of those people today, not just because of the disaster that befell them, but because we currently have in the White House a President who refuses to rule out using nuclear weapons on suspected nuclear sites in Iran, with the inevitable nuclear fallout that such a folly would produce.

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