"And now some more official information on the accident at Chernobyl"
The disastrous nuclear power plant accident on April 25-26, 1986, at Chernobyl in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, cost lives and released masses of polluted air that endangered the health of thousands and contaminated millions of acres of land. In this cartoon, Herb Block drew a family of skeletons, representing the unverified numbers of people who died immediately, or soon afterward, of radiation sickness. Block included a portrait of President Mikhail Gorbachev and a television set to allude to the failure of the government and media to communicate timely information to their own people and the world.
The disastrous nuclear power plant accident on April 25-26, 1986, at Chernobyl in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, cost lives and released masses of polluted air that endangered the health of thousands and contaminated millions of acres of land. In this cartoon, Herb Block drew a family of skeletons, representing the unverified numbers of people who died immediately, or soon afterward, of radiation sickness. Block included a portrait of President Mikhail Gorbachev and a television set to allude to the failure of the government and media to communicate timely information to their own people and the world.