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We live in the most nuked place on Earth
HIDDEN away in the frosty Kazakhstan planes lies the nuclear hell on earth - a wasteland pockmarked with craters, abandoned bunkers and even an "atomic lake".
Kurchatov is the most nuked placed on the planet, where more than 400 nuclear bombs were detonated but kept completely secret as it was erased from maps for decades.
Named after prominent scientist Igor Kurchatov, who was in charge of the Soviet Atomic project, the town is where the Soviets would play Oppenheimer during the arms race with America.
They invented, tested and detonated 456 of their nuclear and hydrogen bombs in the area, equivalent to the US Los Alamos region.
And its unaware locals would have to later bear the consequences for the rest of their lives.
Giant craters were left by the blasts
During the 1950s, it was reported that a single detonation in the region caused four times as many instances of severe radiation poisoning as the Chernobyl disaster.
The inhabitants of the top secret Soviet-era town recalled the horrors they lived with explosions taking place on their doorstep.
They also revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health as radiation left "everyone" riddled with cancer.
An abandoned KGB building in the area
But some admitted that they had no idea what was going on at the time, since the authorities were successful in keeping people in the dark.
Their homeswould violently every once in a while, and they would witness plumes of dust exploding in the distance, but these impacts were dismissed as "extreme weather conditions".
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26694...lace-soviet-oppenheimer-kurchatov-kazakhstan/
maximus otter
HIDDEN away in the frosty Kazakhstan planes lies the nuclear hell on earth - a wasteland pockmarked with craters, abandoned bunkers and even an "atomic lake".
Kurchatov is the most nuked placed on the planet, where more than 400 nuclear bombs were detonated but kept completely secret as it was erased from maps for decades.
Named after prominent scientist Igor Kurchatov, who was in charge of the Soviet Atomic project, the town is where the Soviets would play Oppenheimer during the arms race with America.
They invented, tested and detonated 456 of their nuclear and hydrogen bombs in the area, equivalent to the US Los Alamos region.
And its unaware locals would have to later bear the consequences for the rest of their lives.
Giant craters were left by the blasts
During the 1950s, it was reported that a single detonation in the region caused four times as many instances of severe radiation poisoning as the Chernobyl disaster.
The inhabitants of the top secret Soviet-era town recalled the horrors they lived with explosions taking place on their doorstep.
They also revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health as radiation left "everyone" riddled with cancer.
An abandoned KGB building in the area
But some admitted that they had no idea what was going on at the time, since the authorities were successful in keeping people in the dark.
Their homeswould violently every once in a while, and they would witness plumes of dust exploding in the distance, but these impacts were dismissed as "extreme weather conditions".
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26694...lace-soviet-oppenheimer-kurchatov-kazakhstan/
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