Now living in exile, Medvedev reports on the devastating explosion that occurred in 1957 in the southern Urals where atomic wastes were stored, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination, and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world
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Zhores Medvedev is now a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research in London.
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