Sunday, December 27, 2015

Tour of the museum that houses Ukraine's nuclear past

It was one of the most feared weapons of the Cold War and was dubbed "Satan" by Nato.

The USSR's SS-18 missiles were over a thousand times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the full arsenal capable of global destruction.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of them ended up in the hands of Ukraine, who agreed to put them out of service.

Now, the silos that housed them and the Satan missiles serve as both a tourist attraction and a reminder of the nation's nuclear past.

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