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The Soviet nuclear test that proved America no longer had the advantage
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the power of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union accelerated a secret program to close the growing technological gap with the United ...
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Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in Kazakhstan
About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the warning came too little, too late. Macabre as it may sound, some catastrophes ...
"Deploying nuclear weapons in Poland would be a particularly strong political signal from the U.S. and NATO," one expert said.
Magdalena Stawkowski, an associate professor of anthropology at USC, writes for The Conversation about how villagers around a Soviet-era nuclear test site have persevered over the decades since it ...
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