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Remembering the nuclear nightmare of Kazakhstan

Sixty years since scientists of the erstwhile USSR detonated their first nuclear bomb in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan Thursday remembered the horror of almost 500 explosions - from 1949 to 1989 - the Soviets carried out at the test site in the vast steppe of the Central Asian country.7:02 PM on June 18