So if their lives are going to be so terrible, if they're going to grow up to be transferred to a mental hospital, if these children, these "monsters", are so "inhuman", why are they still living? End it and be done.

Congratulations on the work. It is just so shocking. :(

These pictures bring the terrible effects of radiation on us as human beings very close. The impact of the Chernobyl catastrophe on the lives of these families should be reason enough to make sure that such a desaster will never happen again.

i am online reviewing information to write a paper about the Chernobyl disaster. i have seen many repeated pictures. but have yet to see pictures you have shown anywhere else. very sad and very moving. i am glad the world can view some real in depth pictures.

j'ai une petite fille de 2 mois et demi et de voir tout ces enfant malades et diforme mon fait verser une larme! surtout le petit bébé qui a le cerveau dans la tumeur! de dos on dirait ma petite fille et cela ma frapper en plein coeur!merci a vous Paul d'avoir montrer au monde la vérité et les conséquences de la radioactivité ,qui me parait telement inutile quand on voi se qui peux arriver!apres cette accident,j'aurais interdi toute sorte de radioactivité partout dans le monde pour que jamais sa ne se reproduise

Hi, my name is Alex. I'm in 7th grade and our teacher was having us write a research paper on many horrible desasters. I have always been interested in Chernobly but never took the time to research it. When I found out mine was going to be over Chernobly I was overwelmed with joy. Yay! I thought I can finnaly research this! Now that I have read over 300pages on Chernobly in the last 3days I feel as if I only know a small fraction of the stroy. Seeing these pictures braught me to tears and I was wondering if you, Paul, could send me a few emails about the incedent. It is alexn_football56@yahoo.com. I will warn anyone who sends spam that I do not open anything that looks to be spam so don't send it. Thank you so much.

You are amazing..this website was touching and brings things into prospective that otherwise would never be known. I have read countless articles on the affects of the disaster at chernobyl and most say only about 4000 people are living with the aftermath of the affects of radiation exposure. Which as you so greatly show is not the case! Thank you!

i love rusian people everytime is respect rusian history BUT this is Few idiot Rusian ppl mistake !!!!!!

O my god. I cant stop crying. I know a lot about Chernobyl but this made such a big impact on me. Thank you soooooooooo much.

Great post! I’ve been very interested in this for a long time. I didn’t know that.

there is no god!

wow. i like just took a test about some of this. my teacher suggested to look this up. but this is horrible and sad. is there nothing they can do?! :[

I hope that no more will not be repeated.

i feel so bad for the kids in this vidieo

I HOPE U ALL ARE O.K AND I WANT TO LET U NO THAT I LUV U AND THAT I AM GOING TO PRAY FOR ALL.ITS GOING TO BE O.K WHEN U GET OUR PRAYERS, I AM SO SO SO SORRY ,if u want to give me a call, call me at 706-631-1946

Powerful stuff. You might cite the ECRR2006 report on Chernobyl.: 'ECRR2006 Chernobyl-20 years on- Ed C. Busby and A.V.Yablokov (publ Gren Audit, Aberystwyth UK), which has the true scientific review of the situation with regard to the helath effects and the effects of living systems. There has been a huge cover up of the health effects by the IAEA and WHO. The latter signed an agreement in 1959 to leave research on health and radiation to the atomic scientists. This agreement is still in place.

Bravo to Paul Fusco ! and great appreciation... It seems there is sufficient data now to correlate such health damage as we witness in these photographs to radiation. If a person is un biased and sincerely concerned they will see the connection. But we do not need such an accident for such results. The on-going LOW levels of radiation released from the everyday operation of the many hundreds of Nuclear Power Plants world wide reduce the health of everyone. AS John Gofman said: "Any dose is an over doe.." The Atomic Energy Commsion in a l966 report "The Gentic Effects of Radiation " said: If the number of those affected is increased there would come a crucial point, or threshold, where the slack could no longer be taken up. The genetic load might increase to the point where the species as a whole would degenerate and fade towards extinction - a sort of radical radiation sickness. Nevertheless the AEC went ahead and set a standard of how many rems or rads were acceptable per person per year. John Gofman commented on this: Licensing a nuclear power plant is, in my view, licensing random, premeditated murder. fade towards extinction - a sort of " radical radiation sickness".

Dear Paul, I'm Leonid, I helped you with translation on your trip to the Chernobyl area in Belarus in 1997. Do you remember me? Thank you for this great, emotional, humbling work. Leonid Levin

Poor people, no one diserves something like that =( stuff like this just proves that there is no god, what kind of god would let horrible things like this happen

My uncle, who is a retired civil engineer of several large cities, could not watch this film to the end! Those who say nuclear power is the solution to global warming should see these people. I promised Dr. Radha Roy, professor of nuclear physics emeritus, on his death bed riddled with cancer, I would try to stop nuclear pollution. He told me how it would go and was correct. It was the Three Mile Island partial meltdown that provided the impetus for the Roy Process which will reduce high level nuclear waste to zero radioactivity and produce electricity. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0308/S00219.htm

dear Paul I’m Italian and recently got a game called stalker and also watched a documentary about the Chernobyl accident recently so decided to do an online search i found this website and was deeply saddened that these things are not more in the eye of the public to make them aware in the dangers of nuclear radiation \ power I have deep respect for you and the work you are doing and all thoughts involved But I have to wonder why you allow fools to post things like "look at all those yummy Jews" is it to show how ignorant people are or are there other reasons ? In closing id like to say keep up the awesome work as there are thoughts out there that understand

This has been a real eye opener for me.. after playing The Game S.T.A.L.k.E.R i found myself doing sum research and only recently learned that it as based on a true story.. i cant believe i didnt know about it.. Thanx too the game i have learnt allot about the aftereffects and dangers of radiation.. Thanx for this awsome info :)

I was reading over some of the comments, and the fact that some people had no idea as to what the disaster actually was and just looked it up because of a video game, to me, is disgusting. I recently heard of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R but I did not play it, however, due to how it's loosely based the movie. I did, however, begin looking into it because I was genuinely interested in what had occurred since I knew so little. I couldn't help but be moved by this work and I feel absolutely terrible for all the families affected by the disaster.

I was speechless and crying uncontrollably after i watched this photo documentary. I'm a survivor of the Chernobyl disaster. I was only 3 when it happened and unfortunately for me I lived in Belarus at the time and was highly exposed to the radiation. I developed all sorts of medical problems as a result, but my family was lucky enough to have the opportunity to move to the US. My health problems are now very much under control. I have extreme survivor's guilt. I look at these children and think "this could have been me.....this should be me". I feel awful that i was fortunate enough to get the appropriate medical help and these children just aren't that fortunate. Everyone one of them deserves the most this world has to offer. My love, prayers and support go out to every person affected by this unfathomable disaster. ( If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion)