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Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in Kazakhstan
About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...
Mailuu-Suu once processed uranium for the Soviet nuclear program that challenged American atomic dominance and may have supplied material for the USSR’s first bomb. Today, 23 unstable tailings ponds ...
Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...
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