Monday, November 09, 2009

Kazakhstan's radioactive legacy

Here is a very important but very disturbing photo essay in the Boston Globe on the consequences of Soviet nuclear testing in Kazakstan. The Soviet Union exploded 456 nuclear devices there in a 40-yr period. More than one million people are thought to have been impacted....including those in these pictures. You need to see them.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Got a "page not found" for that link, David.

- Lars

David Appell said...

Link is fixes. Thanks.