Margaret Thatcher on lack of information on Chernobyl

Title

Margaret Thatcher on lack of information on Chernobyl

Genre

Speech

TX Date

3 May 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:02:54

Description

UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher on the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union. She compares the USSR with the USA, which immediately disclosed information following the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and blames communism for the lack of Soviet information.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Accidents; USA; Politics; USSR; International relations; Communism; Access to information; Nuclear safety; Disasters (events); Nuclear power; Nuclear reactors; Space shuttles; Challenger; South Korea; Chernobyl; Dissemination of information

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