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The Happiness of All Mankind

The Chernobyl Podcast

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Is Lead Really the Big Deal?

There was absolutely no real lead protection for any of these people. So what they started to do was scavenge lead from the other parts of the nuclear power plant, buildings one through three. They just start taking that lead. Hammer, lead is incredibly sawe. We'll come to understand the egg basket, it was all home made. I mean, i know in the united states, our soldiers have to actually buy their own body armor nowto upgrade what we give them normally. But they're something, yes, this was give them something. They didn't give them anything, nothing. Right? And that is so upsetting, yes, to me.

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