Thanks for posting, Timber. A sad story indeed. I looked up the name of the place "Semipalatinsk polygon" in Google Earth . The scarring of the landscape is visible even in areas with low-resolution mapping. In particular, I was shocked to find a nearly circular lake, seemingly inside a volcanic crater, that was actually a blast site. It must have contaminated the water supply in the area for generations. :-(
Here's the place (Chagan lake) in Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=49.935115,78.997783&z=13&t=h&hl=no Jostein 2009/7/30 Peter Zalabai <[email protected]>: > I must start with a warning. On the link below there are series of shocking > pictures from a Nuclear Testing site, where villagers were used as human > guinea pigs by the soviet regime to prepare for a war that never happened. > Very nice and touching pictures and I believe they will shock anyone with a > little social-sensitivity in their heart. > > http://www.reportage-bygettyimages.com/#p=features/Under_A_Nuclear_Cloud > > Regards, > .timber > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
