yoctoontologist: Via Alex Wellerstein, an exhibit catalogue on the Soviet nuclear program. The capti
yoctoontologist: Via Alex Wellerstein, an exhibit catalogue on the Soviet nuclear program. The caption says this is model of the first Soviet bomb at “the Polygon,” which was the code name for the Semipalatinsk test site. Somehow it manages to look very futuristic (the big circles, the large poles) and yet quite rustic (the trees, the way in which everything looks like it has been fashioned by hand by some ancient Kazakh craftsman). -- source link
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