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Chronicle 1986

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    • 3 April

      1986

      An exchange of cultural assets between the GDR and the West Berlin Senate.
    • 17-21 April

      1986

      10th SED Party Conference 1986
      The 10th SED Party Conference is dominated by SED hardliners who continue to refuse to support Gorbachev’s reforms. more
    • 26 April

      1986

      Chernobyl 1986: the damaged atomic reactor
      A catastrophic core meltdown and explosion occur in Block 4 of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The explosions release large quantities of radiation, which is carried hundreds of kilometres in a radioactive cloud.


      Later, it is announced that the amount of radioactivity is 40 to 50 times as high as that released during the atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima in 1945. Higher levels of radioactivity are detected in large parts of Europe.
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