Chernobyl — The Nuclear Disaster, Minute by Minute… It started like a quiet night… until 1:23 AM, when Reactor 4 tore itself apart in a flash brighter than sunrise. In seconds, the roof was blown off. In minutes, graphite-firestorms rained radioactive ash over the city. By the hour mark, firefighters — unaware they were walking into death — were picking up burning debris with their bare hands. By sunrise, the air itself was poison… and by the end of the day, an entire region would never be the s

388K views · 5.3K reactions | CNN's Fred Pleitgen visits the abandoned Russian military positions in Chernobyl where Russian soldiers went into the Red Forest, the most nuclear contaminated area on the planet, and brought back radioactive dust. | CNN | Facebook