{"id":12032,"date":"2007-05-02T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/chernobyl-rain\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:22:00","slug":"chernobyl-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/chernobyl-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl Rain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m quite skeptical about this, but I figured I&rsquo;d put it out there because I believe the source is reputable, although I haven&rsquo;t found much of anyone else reporting on it.  The <i>Telegraph<\/i> reports on a quite disturbing alleged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/04\/22\/wrain22.xml\" target=\"_blank\">incident concerning the Chernobyl reactor accident of 1986<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian military pilots have described how they created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Major Aleksei Grushin repeatedly took to the skies above Chernobyl and Belarus and used artillery shells filled with silver iodide to make rain clouds that would &ldquo;wash out&rdquo; radioactive particles drifting towards densely populated cities.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 square miles of Belarus were sacrificed to save the Russian capital from the toxic radioactive material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If true, this is quite a shocking bit of news.  I&rsquo;m really curious to hear more about it one way or another&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/ukraine\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weird\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/conspiracy\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-2244380294949667975?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m quite skeptical about this, but I figured I&rsquo;d put it out there because I believe the source is reputable, although I haven&rsquo;t found much of anyone else reporting on it. The Telegraph reports on a quite disturbing alleged incident concerning the Chernobyl reactor accident of 1986: Russian military pilots have described how they created &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/chernobyl-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chernobyl Rain?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}