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The Soviet Union fell in good part because of the mobilisation over Chernobyl: the first mass demonstrations in Ukraine were about radiation, not about language or autonomy.

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war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

nuclear power Fission as an energy source: what it costs, what it risks, and whether anything else can do the job.

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  1. Serhii Plokhy Ukrainian-American historian
    And then guess what? A few years later, the Soviet Union collapses very much also thanks to the mobilization of people over the issue of Chernobyl and nuclear energy.

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