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Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in Kazakhstan

  • Written by Magdalena Stawkowski, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in KazakhstanFour decades of tests had a total explosive yield of 2,500 Hiroshimas.Magdalena Stawkowski

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 apartment building I found a store whose owner had a copy...

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