Buried Blast: The Kyshtym Disaster's Silent Fallout

In 1957, a Soviet nuclear facility experienced one of the worst radioactive disasters in history — and almost no one outside Russia knows it happened.

This is the story of the Kyshtym Disaster: a catastrophic explosion buried beneath Cold War secrecy. There were no sirens. No evacuations. Just silence, sickness, and a radioactive cloud that drifted for hundreds of miles — while the Soviet Union denied everything.

Based on declassified reports and survivor testimony, this episode reconstructs the blast, the cover-up, and the fallout that still lingers today.

🎙️ Unsettled: The Hidden Record is a documentary series investigating suppressed, forgotten, and deliberately erased history.