From the Soviet Union’s fall to Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, the disaster changed the region. Chornobyl helped to bring down the Soviet Union and constrained independent Ukraine’s nuclear options.
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The Soviet Union State Emblem is seen on the roof of residential building in the ghost city of Prypiat, during a tour in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 7, 2019.