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  In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You

  Posted: October 17th, 2008, 1:36pm EDT by Alan Bellows

  Tags:  History  

  In late 1945, along the banks of the Techa River in the Soviet Union, a dozen labor camps sent 70,000 inmates to begin construction of a secret city. Mere months earlier the United States’ Little Boy and Fat Man bombs had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving Soviet leaders salivating over the massive power of [...]