Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It's a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show ...

Retelling the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is an exercise in un-burying ... While developing his HBO series, "Chernobyl," writer and producer Craig Mazin approached conflicting accounts of the event ...

Sky UK Ltd/HBO Jared Harris (left ... of the extent of it or the human sacrifice involved," she says. "An accident at Chernobyl is not convenient to the powers that be, hence they cover it ...

SKY UK LTD/HBO The TV series shows Pripyat residents ... which became one of the reasons behind the Chernobyl disaster. When the operators pushed the red button, the reactor didn't stop but ...

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It didn't take long for HBO to find another hit TV series after "Game of Thrones." "Chernobyl," a five-episode miniseries about the 1986 nuclear disaster that premiered on May 6 and wrapped up on ...

Back when I first wrote about the HBO series, I noted ... to read that far into the article.) But Chernobyl was on a whole other scale of disaster, for the denial of the risks, the sheer ...