Chernobyl nuclear disaster
- Title
- Chernobyl nuclear disaster
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 14 May 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:04:40
- Description
- Report back to the studio by Martin (Walker?) on a press conference by Dr Robert Gale, who is treating victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster by means of bone marrow transplantations. In an excerpt, Gale says the Soviets and Americans have forged a joint effort to publish information on the victims in biomedical literature. Report also mentions a television address by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev on the disaster, which stuck to the party line and in which Gorbachev attacked what he saw as Western propaganda. Male studio reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Robert Gale; Martin Walker?
- Keywords
- USA; Deaths; Injuries; Health; Bone marrow transplantation; USSR; Propaganda; Cancer; Medical treatment; Nuclear power; Radiation effects; Mikhail Gorbachev; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (1986); Glasnost; Nuclear disasters
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