June 30 - RUSSIAN ROULETTE Part II‏

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Be Well.

David

RUSSIAN ROULETTE

The Haiti quake was a terrible accident. But the country responsible is not apologizing.


PART 2

Красноя́рск (Krasnoyarsk)

By William Thomas


It's a pretty place, pretty far away. Founded by an ancient Cossack at the confluence of two powerful rivers bounded by mountain vistas, Siberia's third largest city of 950,000 souls lies two-and-a-half day's travel northeast from Moscow along the Trans-Siberian railway. Here at ´ (Krasnoyarsk), the powerful Enisey flows north to the Arctic Ocean. The towering cliffs on the southern bank of the Yenisey are billed by the Russian tourist bureau as a “mecca for rock-climbers”.

Unhappy ghosts haunt this nearly 400 year-old settlement north of the Arctic Circle, where a major gulag once harshly hosted banished exiles - from the time of the failed “Decembrist” revolution through Stalin's paranoid purges.

Happily, secret police no longer prowl the New Russia…

To test this silly supposition, start making inquiries about Krasnoyarsk-26. Long shut down, the three graphite reactors in this 17 square-kilometre underground complex once produced plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons. The converted site now produces microwave ovens and Samsung color TVs.

Or ask about the Radio Frequency ionosphere projects being run at the 54 year-old Kirensky Institute of Physics in collaboration with more than 35,000 personnel in eight other research centers across Siberia (and many more in Russia). The Institute of Physics of the Earth studies how the energy of rock movements transforms into an alternating magnetic field.

Better yet, hire a car and instruct the driver to head out to Abalakova. This late 1970s-vintage Cold War site was eventually dismantled following vigorous American government protests that its giant phased-array radar violated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty by providing warning of a U.S. missile and strategic bomber “first strike”.

Moscow kept insisting that their big radar tracked satellites. But instead of pointing south to monitor all orbiting birds, the powerful Siberian array faced northeast - away from satellites tracking west-to-east around the equator.