Zhores Medvedev, in New Scien-
ccident in 1958? tist (June 30, 1977), King's Reach Tower,
Stanford St., London SE1 9LS, England.
In 1976, Russian emigre Zhores Medvedev called attention to a Soviet nuclear disaster in the late 1950s caused an explosion of nuclear waste stored in underground shelters. According to Medvedev, the blast contaminated thousands of square miles and caused several hundred deaths in the sparsely populated South Urals region of the U.S.S.R., where the first Soviet military...