Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb Kassenova Togzhan
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb Kassenova Togzhan Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human…
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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb Kassenova Togzhan
Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons--or try to become a Central Asian North Korea?This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory.
Two-headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health disaster for Kazakhstan--compounded, when the Soviet Union collapsed, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear power.Equipped For Soviet officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing.
MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB