Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union carried out more than 450 nuclear tests in Kazakhstan, transforming an area called ...

Hidden in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan lies one of the most haunting remnants of the Cold War era—the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Once a top-secret location for the Soviet Union’s ...

A woman who grew up in the ‘most nuked place on Earth’ has spoken about the heartbreaking reality she experienced. Maria ...

GROWING up in the most nuked place on Earth, Maira Abenova has helplessly watched as cancer spread through her family. After ...

Over the next 40 years, the Soviet Union would carry out 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk, 116 of which took place above ground, while 340 were conducted underground.

SEMIPALATINSK, Kazakhstan—An hour’s drive down a rutted dirt track in eastern Kazakhstan is an expanse of steppe as big as Belgium, 50 miles from the nearest town. It’s called the Polygon.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site in northern Kazakhstan, where hundreds of nuclear bombs were detonated by the Soviet Union until 1989, is now dotted with craters and boreholes [CTBTO Preparatory ...

The documentary heritage proposed is a single collection of documents concerning the action of the international antinuclear movement (IAM) “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” that put an end to nuclear arms tests ...