Poisoned Without Warning: How the Communist Regime Made Bulgarians Chernobyl’s Most Irradiated People

In 1986, while the rest of Europe scrambled to shield its citizens from the invisible poison drifting west from reactor four, Bulgarian authorities did something remarkable in its cruelty: they pretended the cloud wasn’t there. The result, documented in newly unearthed archives and assembled in Dimitar Vatsov’s investigation The Bulgarian Chernobyl, is a record no country would want. Bulgarians ended up carrying a heavier internal radiation dose than the populations of Ukraine, Belarus, or Russia....