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[Gerald]

In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0864...nobyl-s-shadow

Cold war relic.

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His name was Popov. Dusko Popov. As a Serbian double agent during the Second World War, Popov was an expert gambler, known womaniser and even crossed paths with James Bond's creator Ian Fleming.

But was he really the inspiration behind 007? And did he have the information that could have prevented the Pearl Harbor attacks, if only he had been believed?

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/th...?vpid=p0808hpp

My name is Bond James Bond.


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The night the world almost almost ended

On a September night in 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov stood guard at a satellite-based missile launch detection system. When the alarm went off, announcing that the US had attacked, Petrov had thirty minutes to decide whether the launch was real or false.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07y7...t-almost-ended