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Atomic Steppe - How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Paperback)
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Atomic Steppe - How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Paperback)
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Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure
country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human
history. 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. 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.
For Soviet officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological
marvel or beloved homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for
nuclear testing. 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 with intimate personal
perspective and untapped archival resources, Togzhan Kassenova
introduces us to the engineers turned diplomats, villagers turned
activists, and scientists turned pacifists who worked toward
disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still present around
the world, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their nuclear
inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security.
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