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How The Soviet Union Once Built The Noisiest Airliner In The World Out Of A Nuclear Bomber
It’s the 1950s, and you’re the Soviet Union. Your deepest rivals, the Americans and their corporations, are all preparing the latest and greatest jet airliners to fly them all over the world. And you’ve got… pretty much nothing. But you do have a huge bomber ready to deliver the apocalypse.
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Lecture At Los Alamos In 1992: ‘The End Of The Soviet Union Is The End Of Who We Thought We Were’
“Do not buy maps, buy stock in companies that print maps,” Dr Paul Goble told a group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November of 1992.
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Chernobyl’s Gigantic Radiation Shield Is Now Being Moved Into Place
A giant metal shield designed to contain radioactive waste at Chernobyl’s damaged nuclear reactor is being moved into place.
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Central European Forests Are Regrowing After The Breakup Of The USSR
The collapse of the Soviet Union didn’t just affect humans — forests across Europe and Asia were impacted too. Some 533 million acres of forest in Eastern Europe have regrown since 1985, largely due to the disintegration of timber industries and abandonment of agricultural lands in countries such as Hungary, Croatia, and Bulgaria.