Pripyat, the city built to house the workers of Chernobyl and it's associated facilities, will not be conventionally inhabitable for twenty times the total length of recorded human history. To put things in perspective, the earliest point in human history is generally believed to have been recorded 5,000 years ago. Where our other failures take human lives and can locally devastate an environment, nuclear contamination does both of those and is functionally permanent. Beyond that, the classic novel Roadside Picnic, and the Tarkovsky film Stalker, have opened other avenues to explore the mysteries of the zone.Ĭhernobyl represents the horrific consequences of great ability trapped in indelicate hands. Primarily, my interest was stoked by the acclaimed survival horror video game franchise S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a series in an expanded version of the Chernobyl Exclusion zone that I have spent many hundreds of hours exploring. I've also been spoiled for choices on other ways to immerse myself in the exclusion zone - the cultural impact of Chernobyl cannot be overstated, as it has been reflected upon both literally and figuratively in books, media, video games, movies, and TV shows. While I don't consider myself an expert by any means, these subjects have fascinated me as long as I can remember. Over the years, I've read more books about Chernobyl, nuclear science, the history of the nuclear bomb, radiation, and Soviet history, than any other subject. I have wanted to visit Chernobyl since I was a young man.
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