The Man Who Survived Being Shot Through the Head By the World’s Strongest Laser

The Man in Question

Anatoli Bugorski was a Russian scientist who was working at the Institute for High Energy Physics in 1978. He was working on the U-70 synchrotron particle accelerator, which is still the most powerful particle accelerator in Russia. That day, there Anatoli was searching for malfunctioning pieces of equipment, just when everything went wrong…

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