A Nuclear Family Vacation in Russia
JUL 11, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020253
Slate : When nuclear blasts shook the barren steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, Soviet scientists and their families in the secret military city of Kurchatov took precautions: Schoolchildren went inside, residents shut their windows, and officials passed out iodine tablets to protect workers from radiation. But Valentin Kuklev, a civilian employee involved in the tests, remembered another precautionary step taken by rank-and-file technicians: They drank.
© 2006 American Institute of Physics
