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August 08, 2005
Atrocity Tourism: Chernobyl Heart.
Imagine living in a city so utterly and completely contaminated by radiation that you only have a 15-20% chance of having a normal baby. And even if your kid beats the odds and is born normal, they have hundreds of times the likelihood of kids anywhere else of developing cancer. Early. Real early.
Oh, and by the way, there's nowhere else to go. 99% of your country is contaminated. If you're lucky, your town is only 40 times over the recognized danger level. A few places are worse. A few places, it's actually illegal to have kids.
I bet HBO would make a documentary about a place like that. And maybe someone else would upload it somewhere for you to watch online, just to ruin your morning.
Welcome to Belarus. Don't eat the mushrooms.
Posted by Spike at August 8, 2005 08:13 AM
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When I was in high school, I read a whole slew of post-apocolyptic, post-radioactive-bomb books. Most of them involved people becoming super beings, a la the X-Men, after exposure to radiation. A few were a bit more realistic, however, and had a lot in common with that documentary.
Posted by shadefell at August 9, 2005 09:01 PM
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