Semipalatinsk

According to my sources, they built it at the Semipalatinsk test site.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

According to my sources, they built it at the Semipalatinsk test site.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

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.

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Sergiy Zibtsev, associate professor at the Kiev Institute of Forestry and Landscape Park Management, said: "Smoke from fires in 2003 … at the former nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk Kazakhstan was detected as far off as Canada, so the potential for wildfires to spread radioactivity from Chernobyl is a problem the international community has to take seriously."

Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn 2011

In his address to the opening of the conference last Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the audience that the chilling memories of his recent visit to Semipalatinsk, the former nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, were still fresh in his mind.

Kiyotaka Akasaka: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Talks Symbolize Hope 2010

In August, 1991, four months before the Soviet Union collapsed, he shut down the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.

Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010

Just a few weeks ago, I traveled to Ground Zero -- the former test site at Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union detonated more than 450 nuclear explosions.

Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review 2010

Last April, I was among the reporters who accompanied U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the Semipalatinsk Test Site, shortly before he and Nazarbayev met with President Obama in Washington during the Global Nuclear Summit that gave its final approval to the Kazakhstan transfer operation.

Al Eisele: Kazakhstan Shows Senate How to Start New Start Treaty Al Eisele 2010

Today, Semipalatinsk is a powerful symbol of hope.

Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review 2010

In his address to the opening of the conference last Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the audience that the chilling memories of his recent visit to Semipalatinsk, the former nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, were still fresh in his mind.

Kiyotaka Akasaka: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Talks Symbolize Hope 2010