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Semipalatinsk: The Soviet Nuclear Polygon That Poisoned a Million People in Secret

The Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear bombs on the Kazakh steppe while 1.5 million people lived downwind. A secret clinic studied them instead of warning them.

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Semipalatinsk: The Soviet Nuclear Polygon That Poisoned a Million People in Secret

Kazakhstan

The world's largest landlocked country inherited 1,500 nuclear warheads and the most bombed test site on Earth. Kazakhstan gave up the arsenal and kept the scars.

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Semipalatinsk: The Soviet Nuclear Polygon That Poisoned a Million People in Secret

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