Sources have told NHK that arrangements are underway for the governor of Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture to visit a former ...

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

Brazil is often where Russian intelligence officers begin their careers—adopting new identities before heading abroad. NV has selected the most compelling reports from leading Western media outlets.

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 ...

ASTANA – The Kazakh Foreign Ministry welcomed the 2025 cohort of the United Nations Program of Fellowships on Disarmament on ...

Unrelated photos of people wearing protective gear emerging from hillside tunnels have been shared in posts that falsely ...

The hydrogen bomb was one of 456 nuclear weapons detonated by the Soviet Union at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, a 7,000 square mile swathe of steppe known as the Polygon.

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 ...

If you are planning to travel to Semipalatinsk or any other city in Kazakhstan, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Semipalatinsk Airport ...