

April 19, 2026
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Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Adam Higginbotham
Self

Galia Ackerman
Self

Wyatt Andrews
Self

Olena Mokhnyk
Self


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David Dugan

Karena Kalmbach
Self

Miniseries
4 episodes
April 19, 2026
CNN Original Series
US

Windfall Films
GB

National Geographic Channels International
US