as the songs play on in the background. That said, the matching of lyrics and imagery is occasionally too on the nose, as when a shot of Robert F. Kennedy is thrown up to illustrate the line “Who killed the Kennedys?” Nevertheless, the cutting on the beats is rendered with admirable precision in a way that enhances the songs every time.

The images are drawn from an impressively diverse range of sources, including rare interview snippets with late founder/member Brian Jones; footage of Jagger smiling bemusedly on a talkshow as an intellectual pretentiously discusses the primal fascination of the band; and a delicious clip of drummer Charlie Watts being typically taciturn. However, there’s little here that the average rabid Stones fan won’t have seen before, if he or she’sBy Timothy A. Mousseau

The largest nuclear disaster in history occurred 30 years ago at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union. The meltdown, explosions and nuclear fire that burned for 10 days injected enormous quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and contaminated vast areas of Europe and Eurasia. The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that Chernobyl released 400 times more radioactivity into the atmosphere than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Radioactive cesium from Chernobyl can still be detected in some food products today. And in parts of central, eastern and northern Europe many animals, plants and mushrooms still contain so much radioactivity that they are unsafe for human consumption.

The first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico more than 70 years ago.