Drew Scanlon's Cloth Map projects aims to take locations made famous through video games and find their real-life equivalents—and show their real-life consequences, too. Eastern Europe's Soviet-enforced military might has been a mainstay from games to Command and Conquer to GoldenEye, and Scanlon's look at a decommissioned nuclear facility in Ukraine shows why such bases inspired such fear.

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The museum really was a Cold War mainstay, with weapons constantly pointed at Washington, D.C. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine found itself with the third largest nuclear arsenal in world. The country eventually transferred its nuclear warheads to Russia in 1996, and in 2001 the facility became a museum, a branch of the Ukrainian National Museum of Military History.

Scanlon's tour shows both the complexity of mutually assured destruction, with the facility's heavy security and safety measures, and how it was also as easy as flipping a few switches. Watching the buttons flash is reminiscent of a video game, but Scanlon's project shows how playing doesn't quite get across the immense destructive power of these facilities.

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