Hidden in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan lies one of the most haunting remnants of the Cold War era—the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Once a top-secret location for the Soviet Union’s ...

The documentary about the lasting impact of a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan will world premiere Sunday at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, which ...

Reverse image searches on Google found the three images used in the false posts were in fact taken at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, where 456 nuclear tests were conducted over 42 years ...

Concrete structures are pictured approximately 650 feet away from the site of the first Soviet nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, south of Kurchatov, in Kazakhstan.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First ...

Polls are open in Kazakhstan for a landmark referendum on building the country's first nuclear power plant. ... 456 tests were carried out between 1949 and 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test site.

Nuclear-power-related projects have been a controversial issue in Kazakhstan, where the environment was severely impacted by operations at the Soviet-era Semipalatinsk nuclear test site from 1949 ...

Although fossil fuels power Kazakhstan’s energy grid almost entirely, Tokayev has acknowledged that meeting the country’s obligations to reduce emissions under the Paris Agreement will require ...

Sources have told NHK that arrangements are underway for the governor of Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture to visit a former nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan, Central Asia, in mid-July.

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 ...

The Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon — RDS 1 — on Aug. 29, 1949 at a site in modern Kazakhstan and the impact of that explosion is still felt in Aiken County more ...