Visiting Chernobyl and Pripyat: A Trip For the Brave
Tucked in the countryside near Kiev, a beautiful ghost town stands preserved, a monument to the risks of nuclear power. Chernobyl is more than the site of one of the world’s largest nuclear tragedies.…
October 16, 2014 - 3:07 pm in Historical, Places to visitSt. Petersburg, Russia: Beyond the Tourist Attractions
Imagine a world where in winter air turns your breath into iridescent drops of ice as soon as you exhale. A place where the cold isn’t bitter – it’s inviting, but bone-bitingly fierce. The sky…
April 2, 2014 - 2:33 pm in Quick HistoryThe Man Who Saved the World, Stanislav Petrov
Man's power to destroy the world is a mostly modern capability. In today's age of nuclear weaponry, as a legacy of the Cold War we live with the concept of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) - it's…
March 14, 2014 - 4:19 pm in Quick HistoryThe Crimean War – a 19th Century War That Sounds Terribly Familiar
"Time is a flat circle. Everything we've ever done, or will do, we'll do over again." - True Detectives, HBO That's what I keep thinking as I write this article on the Crimean War. Maybe I've been…
