Soviet Atomic Lighthouses Are Both Spooky and Deadly

Posted by Chris Benjamin in Strange on Jan 18th, 2009 | 0 comments

Once upon a time, back when people in Russia used big moustaches and sent other people to Siberia, there were no GPS or tacky cellphones. But they had atomic lighthouses to light the Artic shores. Since there was no easy way to travel by ship across the Northern coast of the Soviet Union, the smartypants of the Communist regime decided that they needed a chain of autonomous lighthouses that could run 24/7/365.

See the full article at English Russia (via Gizmodo)

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