During the Cold War, the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan was the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing ground. Between 1949 and 1989, more than 450 nuclear bombs were exploded ...

Twenty years ago today, Kazakhstan closed a dark chapter in its nuclear history by officially shutting down the infamous Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the northeast Kazakh steppe. Over a 40-year ...

Beginning in 1949 and spanning a period of 40 years, the Soviet Union carried out more than 450 nuclear tests in the isolated steppes of eastern Kazakhstan. In 1989, when the socialist state collapsed ...

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August 29 marks 30 years since Kazakhstan closed its Semipalatinsk test site, a vast, remote area that was used by the Soviet Union for hundreds of atmospheric and underground nuclear tests over a ...

Fifteen years ago today, President Nursultan Nazarbayev officially closed the Semipalatinsk test range, where over 450 underground- and atmospheric nuclear tests had been conducted. Today, the ...

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Special Semipalatinsk nuclear safety zone will be created in Kazakhstan on the territory of the former Semipalatinsk test site in Semey city, Trend reports with reference to the Ministry of Energy of ...