Inside City 40: Russia's secret nuclear paradise city...

Richdog · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:06

Absolutely fascinating and horrifying in equal measures, this story reads like some kind of dystopian Science-fiction B movie or computer game (Fallout, anyone?). Just when you thought the world couldn't get any crazier or more screwed up, Russia steps up and hits a home run with a secret and well protected 'idyllic' city of brainwashed people planted in the 1940s to further a nuclear weapons programs, who are now all dying of radiation and yet seem happy to do so. If the mass dumping of radioactive material is also true, with the equivalent if 4x the contamination of Chenille dumped into the Atlantic over the last 60 or so years, then little wonder it has remained such a closely guarded secret. Truly crazy guano. :eek:

Read about it here https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...-secret-nuclear?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook

Hades · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:16

A very interesting read. Thank you.

What happened to cities 1 to 39????

lafemmefatale · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:17

Well we kinda know what happened to City 17.

Richdog · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:19

Hades said:
A very interesting read. Thank you.

What happened to cities 1 to 39????

They are deep underground, awaiting the inevitable apocalypse...

Dsteviedee · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:22

It was know as Chelyabinsk-40, which is the nearest city and the digits are the last digits of the postal code. Apparently, common practice with closed towns.

Guerrilla · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:26

Russia be crazy.

Really interesting read though, thanks!

datalol-jack · 21 Jul 2016 at 07:59

"Seen my transdimensional mauler scamper by, Grisha?"
"Sure did, Vassya. At six o'clock it chowed down on Zinaida Ivanovna, took all my happy shrooms and is now teleporting the Commandant between Lake Death and the main reactor. Better hurry."
"Well I be damned! It's gonna be a long night, Grisha... I can feel it."
"Hey, at least krovyanka here's top notch!"
"Sure is."
"Godspeed."

lafemmefatale · 21 Jul 2016 at 08:14

datalol-jack said:
"Seen my transdimensional mauler scamper by, Grisha?"
"Sure did, Vassya. At six o'clock it chowed down on Zinaida Ivanovna, took all my happy shrooms and is now teleporting the Commandant between Lake Death and the main reactor. Better hurry."
"Well I be damned! It's gonna be a long night, Grisha... I can feel it."
"Hey, at least krovyanka here's top notch!"
"Sure is."
"Godspeed."

Far too early.

datalol-jack · 21 Jul 2016 at 08:36

lafemmefatale said:
Far too early.

Shush, you didn't pay attention! In City 40, the clock always lies. But it's the only one they have.

Next episode: Vassya discovers the Commandant's fate; sanities are strained; realities warped. Will our brave hero taste sweet Pertsovka again? Find out, as Mayak's radioactive heart goes critical!

Cosimo · 21 Jul 2016 at 10:57

Hades said:
A very interesting read. Thank you.

What happened to cities 1 to 39????

Too sick to appear...

beachBOYken · 21 Jul 2016 at 11:11

Remember seeing this on TV a few years back, think it was a Simon reeve documentary.

datalol-jack · 21 Jul 2016 at 11:51

Inb4: Why don't we send our unemployed there?

PhillyDee · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:03

Also standard practise in all nuclear and army installations to use random numbers for entrances. Entrance 16, any invading army would naturally assume there are another 15 . . . .

Richdog · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:04

beachBOYken said:
Remember seeing this on TV a few years back, think it was a Simon reeve documentary.

Interesting, will Google it. Also there was a documentary out in 2016 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2721744/

beachBOYken · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:18

Richdog said:
Interesting, will Google it. Also there was a documentary out in 2016 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2721744/

I tried to google it but it may not have been him actually.

It was someone who done a road trip around the Eastern regions and was on either BBC or ITV.

Edit* Think I got it it was called Russia on four wheels on BBC in 2014.

DaleTheWhale · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:50

Children of Atom!

hyperseven · 21 Jul 2016 at 12:53

so like a Wayward Pines ?

ps3ud0 · 21 Jul 2016 at 13:27

Guess Ive found my destination for the inevitable Zombie apocalypse...

Harrowing tale though

ps3ud0 :cool:

datalol-jack · 21 Jul 2016 at 14:53

ps3ud0 said:
Guess Ive found my destination for the inevitable Zombie apocalypse...

Harrowing tale though

ps3ud0

Pretend you're French so couldn't read the sign.

the_r_sole · 21 Jul 2016 at 15:03

it must be difficult to keep all the superheroes in a closed city like that...