How Epstein's den of evil

is the

Deep State's Chernobyl

In the spring of 1986, a radioactive cloud spread across northern Europe from the Ukraine, then a republic of the USSR. The world's worst nuclear accident — an unconfined reactor meltdown — was spewing its lethal debris into the atmosphere. There was no hiding that something was profoundly wrong.

"Tell the world to help us" was the desperate message from those who faced the catastrophe face-on. Whilst the true death toll is highly contended, it was effectively the end of the growth in nuclear power — regardless of the exact cost of this single disaster. (This is somewhat ironic, given how competing technologies kill more people via pollution per unit of power generated. But I digress…)

Chernobyl was a failure of containment at three levels: the technical level, the national jurisdiction level, and the political narrative level. The first of these is obvious: a fatal miscalculation and management error, resulting in an explosion that demolished the roof of the building — that exposed the damaged reactor core to the open air.

The second is that the consequences rapidly spread across national borders, making it impossible for the Soviets to cover up what had happened. Governments in the West may also have been keen to hush up the scale of the problem, but there was simply no way of hiding the reality of radioactive particles raining down from the sky everywhere.

The third is perhaps the most interesting. The widespread collapse of communism only a few years later can arguably be partly attributed to Chernobyl — among many other key causes. Forever embedded in the hot corium — entombed in Pripyat — is the now-defunct idea of Soviet technical and management superiority over the West.

The fate of Soviet "technological totalitarianism" was sealed the moment the reactor housing was blown to pieces. It was only a matter of time: there was no way back from this public cataclysm. Coming forward 30+ years, we are now seeing the collapse of another totalitarian system — one that has hitherto hidden in the shadows…

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