I find this site eerily fascinating and troubling at the same time. Elena is a nuclear scientist in Kiev, and her passion is motorcycles. Her other passion is riding into the "dead zone" around Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster. She speaks of the coincidental connnection between the name Chernobyl, which means "wormwood' and Revelation 8:11, which tells of the star named "Wormwood:" "the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." Traveling through the Ghost Town, which was a bustling city in 1986, you can't help but think that this is what the cities will look like in those end times. It is a sobering look, almost voyeristic, but Elena can't get too close to some parts of the city as the radiation is still too strong. She speaks of people climbing to the roof of the tallest building to see the split in the containment building, and that is the last thing they saw.

History; and a troubling chapter in it. Thanks, Bene Diction for the link.



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