Place
Kurchatov, Kazakhstan
Town the Soviet military built as a secret research and administrative center for the Semipalatinsk test site, then known as Semipalatinsk-21.
- Also known as
- Semipalatinsk-21
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- Q767177
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involved in
- Soviet nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk secret town the military built for the site Scholarship & press 1
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- Kazakhstan Scholarship & press 1
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The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing (Togzhan Kassenova), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 28 Sep 2009.
Scholarship & press
During the first decades of testing, the Soviet military built a secret research and administrative center 60 kilometers away from the testing grounds–a new town that the outside world would come to know only as Semipalatinsk-21.
Natalya Zhdanova, who lived in Kurchatov from 1968 to 2000, remembers that announcements about the tests were broadcast on the local radio stations, along with movie show times and weather forecasts.
As a member of a military family whose relatives were involved in the testing, she never worried about how the tests might impact her or her family’s health.
People were not afraid of radiation–maybe because nobody was suffering from leukemia or other diseases.
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