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Bo Jacobs<p>"'Let us be a lesson', say Kazakhs wary of return to nuclear testing"</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Kazakhstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kazakhstan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semey</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTests</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/asia-pacific</span><span class="invisible">/let-us-be-lesson-say-kazakhs-wary-return-nuclear-testing-2023-11-30/</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>Scientists calculate that four specific tests (out of almost 500) were responsible for the majority of the radioactive fallout deposited downwind of the Polygon nuclear test site in Kazakhstan (the primary test site of the former USSR). </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fallout</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semey</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Polygon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polygon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Bo Jacobs<p>Emblem of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk alliance. A post-Cold War alliance linking the two major nuclear weapon testing sites of the Cold War. An early "global hibakusha" linkage. </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semey</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semipalatinsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semipalatinsk</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ColdWarHist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWarHist</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/nuclearhumanities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nuclearhumanities</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sts</span></a></span> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NTS</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NNNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NNNS</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/NuclearTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearTesting</span></a></p>
Bo Jacobs<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@laicie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>laicie</span></a></span> </p><p>"Flash back to 1989, on the other side of the world lies another steppe near <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semey</span></a> (once <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semipalatinsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semipalatinsk</span></a>), <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Kazakhstan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kazakhstan</span></a>. A land that’s survived famine, collectivization, and hundreds of nuclear tests. When an underground test goes wrong, Kazakhs band together with the world and say it’s time to stop nuclear testing for good."</p>