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 movie, the first-ever film from Kazakhstan to screen at the Copenhagen ... When she first arrived in the area of the former nuclear test site to start work on her doc, the filmmaker ...

Amid calls to restart nuclear testing, families are still suffering from mutations passed down through the generations ...

The Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon — RDS 1 — on Aug. 29, 1949 at a site in modern Kazakhstan and ... to develop and successfully test a nuclear weapon.

“For Kazakhstan, nuclear energy isn’t something new and unfamiliar ... memories of the more than 450 nuclear tests carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which spread radioactive fallout ...

Kazakhstan has allocated $32 million for a referendum on the construction of a nuclear power station. The referendum, scheduled for October 6, has sparked controversy due to concerns over nuclear ...

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 ...