To: struwwelpeter
Click
here for an interesting photo essay of a gal and her bike, and the Ghost Town near Chernobyl.
It's worth the clicks to the end.
I had heard of reference to the Ural incident, but never read anything on it. Thanks for the info.
2 posted on
04/15/2004 11:41:16 PM PDT by
PurVirgo
(If you give a lawyer viagra, he only grows taller)
To: struwwelpeter
124 thousand people received lethal exposures to radiation. In the spring of 1963, as if to add to the woes of the district, there was a drought and the normally shallow and swampy Lake Karachai dried out completely. A dust storm arose from the bottoms of the lake, where several years of nuclear waste lay waiting, and another forty thousand victims. Oh the Ironies of Soviet Communism. The Russian nuclear program kills almost as many Russians, if you include Chernobyl, as Japanese were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
3 posted on
04/16/2004 12:41:27 AM PDT by
Odyssey-x
To: Travis McGee; Shooter 2.5; archy
Prequel to the Kid of Speed 'documentary' on Chernobyl...
4 posted on
04/16/2004 12:50:15 AM PDT by
in the Arena
("rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” ~ Orwell)
To: struwwelpeter
This is exactly the scenario terrorists want in America's cities. 1950 technology comes comparatively cheap today in the global market.
5 posted on
04/16/2004 1:08:52 AM PDT by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
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