WHAT do you do when the market for what you normally produce dries up?
Diversify. That’s certainly what they’ve done at Russia’s top-secret nuclear
facility near Sarov. By way of ringing the changes from producing weapons of
mass destruction, they have started making church bells.
Technicians at the facility say that after years of computer modelling, they
have mastered the ancient skills of bell forging. Once known only to Orthodox
monks, the art was lost during religious repressions in the Soviet era. The tone
and pitch of the first completed bells have been favourably assessed by local
musicians and even…
