Sep 17, 2012
What happens when you build cities to for only one reason, and that reason goes away? What if that city is full of scientists and engineers building nuclear warheads?
One of the decided advantages enjoyed by central planning is the ability to, in the words of Captain Picard, “make it so,” and thereby create – or wreak – change on a grand scale. The Soviet Union offers many examples, but the consequences of one such phenomenon continue on: the so-called “closed cities” that were devoted to the research and manufacture of military equipment and, most importantly, nuclear weapons. Over at 3QuarksDaily, my latest article examines the murky past and even murkier future of these deliberately designed conurbations.
