In March 1986, a nine-page article about the Chernobyl nuclear installation appeared in the English-language edition of Soviet Life, under the heading of Total Safety'. Only a month later, over the weekend of the 26–27 April, the world's worst nuclear accident—thus far—occurred at the plant.

QUESTION: How deliberately ironic was the timing of the Soviet Life piece? Worth investigating whether it was pure coincidence or blinkered confidence.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 13