The peaceful untouched forest north of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, is a perfect spot to enjoy the outdoors – save for one fact. It contains the radiation-contaminated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, ...
Built in the 1970s as part of a Soviet anti-ballistic early warning network, it was rumoured to have been used as a mind control weapon aimed at Americans. However, this theory is unlikely to be true.
When you are in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and your tour guide asks, with just a hint of guile, if you would like to see the Russian Woodpecker, you might think that you will finally ...
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The eternal enigma of the Soviet 'woodpecker'
EL MUNDO gains access to the mysterious Duga radar, the secret installation next to the Chernobyl plant, which has been closed to the public since the Russian invasion. At the entrance gates to the ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened in 1986, it shook the world in many ways. Not only did it put the now ghost town of Pripyat on the map for all the wrong reasons, it also exposed the ...
On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting shortwave, maritime, aeronautical, and telecommunications signals ...
We all know about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster but few have heard of the nearby secret military facility whose purpose is shrouded in mystery. The world’s worst nuclear accident belched 400 times ...
The massive Duga radar - dubbed the "Russian Woodpecker"- is hidden in a forest in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone HAUNTING photographs reveal a secret “mind control” radar that’s been left to decay in ...
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