My dear people, I'm so proud to tell you that my documentary "Nuclear lessons" made it to the finals of the Cannes Film Festival. While working on this documentary, I realized how fragile our world is and how important it is to appreciate it. This is Lyadov, and today, I am in this scary as hell place that had served as the testing ground for the most devastating weapons of mass destruction humanity has ever invented - nuclear bombs - for 40 years in a row. A total of almost half a thousand nuclear bombs had been tested here between 1949 and 1989. The USSR’s top scientists and researchers were studying the effect of nuclear weapons on urban settlements. They had been building mock towns with real buildings and even metro stations to be able to see and access the impact. The researchers identified the areas where people would die right away, where people could survive but go blind, or where they’d survive just fine and but their progeny would develop mutations for many years into the f