Resumen de Zone of secrets
Pearce discusses one of the biggest and the most hidden nuclear disasters ever. The village of Satlykovo, just east of the US mountains in Russia, is no more. The main street is knee-high in nettles, its houses bulldozed. All around, the land is blooming. Nearby forests harbor elk and wild boar. The lake is home to radioactive carp. One morning 59 years ago, soldiers came and ordered the villagers to leave. There were no explanations. The troops didn't say that there had been an explosion at a factory a few kilometers away; or that the blast had propelled radioactive dust into the air, farming a deadly plume that rained out across Satlykovo and the surrounding countryside. The very existence of the Mayak complex, where weapons-grade plutonium was made, was a military secret.
