Articles by Jerome Taylor, in Kurchatov
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THE WORLD’S WORST RADIATION HOTSPOT
Jerome Taylor, in Kurchatov,
10 Sep 2009
At the start of the Cold War, Stalin chose one of the furthest outposts of his empire to test the Soviet Union’s first nuclear bombs. Sixty years on, their cancerous legacy is still being felt. Walking through the flat and endless Kazakh steppe, Nemytov Oleg suddenly stops, fumbles in his desert camouflage trousers and pulls […]
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