A Latvian astronomer and his wife drove 190 miles to a secret Soviet ghost town in 1994; found a 600-ton telescope the Russians had poured acid on – adapted the Cold War machine built to spy on the We

When the Soviet Union had disintegrated, and Russian troops were finally leaving Latvia in 1994, much of the country’s hidden military infrastructure was suddenly exposed. Secret maps surfaced. Abandoned bases were opened.…

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