Kyshtym, Siberia, September 1957 : ‘Several hundred villages, several hundreds thousand people and they’re all being evacuated … The entire area was contaminated.’ Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e2: Black Sites, comment, History 2025
Medvedev reveals that the Kyshtym disaster was caused by an accident at the top-secret nuclear processing plant called Mayak, just eight miles away. ibid.
It’s constructed at breakneck speed by an unconventional workforce: prisoners. ibid.
Declassified documents show that the CIA knew all along and kept it secret. ibid.