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June 03, 2005
Novaya Zemyla
I am fascinated by Wall Street bond trading and nuclear weapons. You can talk about these things all your life and never really understand them. I am also fascinated by remote places on the globe, not because they are particularly hostile, but because they are remote. So this evening by chance navigation by way of Google Earth and Alamogordo, NM, I have arrived at a Russian nuclear test site. It's an island called Novaya Zemlya.
Chances are you've never heard of the place before. I know I haven't. And yet isn't that extraordinary? The biggest explosions in the history of mankind, these nukes. But none of us know where they happened or might be happening.
Do you rembmer when the Kursk went down in the Barents Sea? It's still there. Makes you wonder what else is out there.
Posted by mbowen at June 3, 2005 10:27 PM
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