Hunting a Deadly Soviet Legacy (washingtonpost.com)
"TBILISI, Georgia -- In the 1970s, scientists in the former Soviet Union developed scores of powerful radioactive devices and dispatched them to the countryside for a project known cryptically as Gamma Kolos, or "Gamma Ears." Its purpose: to deliberately expose plants to radiation and measure the effects."

Did somebody say tomacco?
posted by James at 11/11/2002 11:12:06 AM