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An abandoned Soviet Cold War-era radar system known as “The Woodpecker” used to detect incoming missiles and that measures 140 meters tall stands inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on September 30, 2015 near Chornobyl, Ukraine. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is a 2,600 square kilometer restricted access zone established in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, technicians at Chernobyl conducting a test inadvertently caused reactor number four to explode, creating the worst nuclear accident in history. Authorities evacuated 120,000 people from surrounding towns and villages. While workers employed at the Chernobyl site today and a small number of returnees live in the outer zone, no one is allowed to live in the inner zone, where hot spots of radiation make the area uninhabitable for thousands of years to come. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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