I recently read a piece in this very op-ed section that caught my attention. Someone wrote about the assassination attempts on Donald Trump. Not the attempts themselves, but the silence around them. The mainstream media's silence. Trump's own silence. The lack of comment from the whole political and media establishment that would have occupied months of airtime in other circumstances. His point was straightforward: the quiet is stranger than the shots.

I've been thinking about reactor number four ever since.

On the night of April 26, 1986, operators at Chernobyl watched instruments behave in ways the manual said were impossible. They continued with the test anyway. The explosion took place and officials classified it as a minor accident. Firefighters arrived on the scene but they were not wearing radiation suits. For 36 hours, people in Pripyat lived as they were accustomed to, and the air around them slowly poisoned them.

Years later, Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the USSR, would........

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