The USSR’s final tests were carried out at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk site on Oct. 19, 1989, and at Novaya Zemlya on Oct. 24, 1990. The USSR then unilaterally halted nuclear weapons testing but, in ...
Unsurprisingly, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president, comfortably won. Official results show that 71% of voters cast their ballots in favour of building a nuclear power station. Companies from at ...
Even more salient for most Kazakhs are memories of the more than 450 nuclear tests carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which spread radioactive fallout across 18,500 square kilometers ...
However, the use of nuclear materials remains a controversial ... In total, 456 tests were carried out between 1949 and 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test site. It was officially closed in August ...
Russia's testing site, located on the remote Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, was where the Soviet Union conducted more than 200 nuclear tests, including the detonation of the world ...
The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ready to resume nuclear tests "at any moment" if Moscow gave the order, in rare comments likely to fuel ...