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If you'd like a mind blowing read find a copy of this: https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Disaster-Urals-Zhores-Medvedev/dp/0393334112 https://www.amazon.com/Nuclea

If you'd like a mind blowing read find a copy of this: https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Disaster-Urals-Zhores-Medvedev/dp/0393334112 https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Disaster-Urals-Zhores-Medvede... Z. Medvedev is a Soviet dissident and exile that naively mentioned the Kyshtym disaster in an interview not understanding that he would be roundly panned by Western authorities in the nuclear industry and fellow travelers in Western media. Being a legitimate and accomplished academic he valued his credibility so he wrote a book to convince the world, using research papers published by Soviet scientists and available in the open press, that the disaster actually happened. He showed that the work in the papers could only have been conducted given massive radioactive contamination over a wide area, despite deliberate effort to obscure these circumstances. The cited papers would have been blocked from publication had the Soviet censors understood what they were reading, but they didn't, so the evidence accumulated. If anyone in the West noticed prior to Medvedev sticking their noses in it they didn't bother to say anything. Years later the Soviets fessed up and vindicated Medvedev.

wahern 9y ago
Interesting that the West still denied the Mayak incidents, even in the 1970s. Experts in Britain, the United States, France, and many other countries responded by denying my story and stating that such a thing was technically impossible. The earliest and most sharply worded rebuttal to my story came from the chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Sir John Hill. His interview with the Press Association published in the London Times on November 8, 1976, was reprinted in many European and American papers. He declared in the most high-handed fashion that my story was "rubbish". -- Zhores Medvedev, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, p5 (Amazon preview)

wahern 9y ago

Interesting that the West still denied the Mayak incidents, even in the 1970s. Experts in Britain, the United States, France, and many other countries responded by denying my story and stating that such a thing was technically impossible. The earliest and most sharply worded rebuttal to my story came from the chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Sir John Hill. His interview with the Press Association published in the London Times on November 8, 1976, was reprinted in many European and American papers. He declared in the most high-handed fashion that my story was "rubbish". -- Zhores Medvedev, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, p5 (Amazon preview)