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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on May 13, 2014 19:26:03 GMT
iO9 : The Tragic Story of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Vincze Miklós 3/05/13 3:00pm The Semipalatinsk Test Site ("The Polygon") was the primary nuclear testing site for the Soviet Union. It's about 150 kilometres west of the town Semey (named Semipalatinsk until 2007). The place was selected in 1947 by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, who claimed the huge steppe region was totally uninhabited. It wasn't, but nobody cared. Workers from Gulag camps were brought in to build a big complex of buildings and laboratories. Here's what happened. io9.com/5988266/the-tragic-story-of-the-semipalatinsk-nuclear-test-site
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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on May 13, 2014 19:32:34 GMT
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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on May 13, 2014 19:45:31 GMT
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