In 1957, Laika became the first living creature In 1962, a meeting in a New York hotel bar set in motion what would become Fantasy Football. In 1948, the Chicago Tribune misprinted 'Dewey defeats Truman' in their morning edition. In 2024, music producer Quincy Jones died at the a ...Show more
History Today - November 2
In 1988, the first computer worm was released into a computer system at M.I.T. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill, creating a federal holiday recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1963, the term 'Beatlemania!' was introduced into the lexicon after a Daily Mail headli ...Show more
Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster in which the reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant suffered a full meltdown and explosion resulting in the worst nuc ...Show more
In 1986, the Chernobyl power plant became the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Poisonous radiation caused over 100,000 casualties, and cost billions of dollars to clean up. Even now, the exclusion zone is one of the most polluted and heavily-patrolled regions in the ...Show more
April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant. Peter Sagal and Craig Mazin discuss these events and more behind the series premiere of Chernobyl. They talk about w ...Show more