Igor Kirschenbaum

Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

2026 marks 40 years since the disaster in Chornobyl and new witnesses are now coming forward. In Sweden, it all starts with the alarm going off at the Forsmark nuclear power plant for elevated radioactive radiation.