Semipalatinsk
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noun
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The date to protest nuclear testing commemorates the closing of the former Soviet Union’s nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk, now part of Kazakhstan, on Aug. 29, 1991.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023
And Pierpaolo Mittica's short film Semipalatinsk Polygon, the crime of nuclear testing - revealing the human and environmental legacy of Cold War weapons testing - won the Video category.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021
For the farming community of Semipalatinsk, the tests have wreaked a quiet, generational havoc: it is the cause, they believe, of terrible birth defects in their children.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2011
More than 1 million people who lived next to the Semipalatinsk atomic bomb test site were affected by radiation resulting from the Soviet Union's test explosions of about 500 bombs between 1949 and 1989.
From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2010
The Russian portion is comprised in the governments of Tomsk and Semipalatinsk, the Chinese in Dsungaria.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
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