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    The Semipalatinsk Test Site or Semipalatinsk-21 (Russian: Семипалатинск-21; Kazakh: Семей-21, romanized: Semei-21), also known as "The Polygon", was the...
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  • Chagan (Чага́н) was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. Chagan was the first and largest of...
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    aiming to close the Nevada Test Site. The Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear weapons tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, between 1949 and 1989. The...
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    by a nuclear test explosion in 1965, it is part of the Balapan complex, one of the main tourist attractions of the Semipalatinsk Test Site. The lake lies...
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  • most recent test was a sub-critical test of the properties of plutonium, conducted underground on December 7, 2012. The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also known...
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  • Stalin. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m., at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR, after top-secret research and development as part...
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    tests (involving 969 devices) by official count, plus 13 unnumbered test failures. Most were at their Southern Test Area at Semipalatinsk Test Site and...
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    incidents Savannah River Site– the DOE reservation with similar operations as NTS Semipalatinsk Test Site Novaya Zemlya Test Site Area 51/Area 52 Totskoye...
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    Semey (redirect from Semipalatinsk)
    the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) from the first explosion in 1949 until 1989; 456 nuclear tests, including 340 underground and 116 atmospheric tests, took...
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  • RDS-6s (category Soviet nuclear weapons testing)
    (influenced by Nikita Khrushchev), code-named RDS-37. All were at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR. Like RDS-6, it was a "dry" weapon, using lithium-6...
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    operations for the adjoining Semipalatinsk Test Site. With the cessation of nuclear testing and the decommissioning of the test site, Kurchatov's population...
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    them took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan and the Northern Test Site at Novaya Zemlya. Additional industrial tests were conducted at various...
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    nuclear testing on a large scale with very little regard to environmental concerns and public health safety at the Semipalatinsk-21 (test site) that has...
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    RDS-4 (category Soviet nuclear weapons testing)
    known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately 1,200...
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  • RDS-37 (category Soviet nuclear weapons testing)
    weapon was air-dropped at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, making it the first air-dropped two-stage thermonuclear test. It was the largest detonation...
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    to manufacture, acquire, test, or possess nuclear weapons. The treaty was signed on 8 September 2006 at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, and is also...
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  • explosion sites used across the world. It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful...
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    Togzhan Kassenova (28 September 2009). "The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Pallava Bagla. "Radiation...
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    first thermonuclear weapon tested by the USSR, RDS-6s (Joe-4), was detonated on August 12, 1953, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan and yielded...
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    environmental and public health issues due to Soviet nuclear weapon testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, as well as concerns about Russia's potential involvement...
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    the region is Semey, until 2007 known as Semipalatinsk. Its borders roughly correspond to the old Semipalatinsk Region which was liquidated in 1997 and...
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  • of these tests took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, or the Polygon, located in northeast of Kazakhstan.: 61  The testing at Semipalatinsk alone exposed...
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    died. After the end of the war, nuclear weapons tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk test site from 1949 onwards. The Kazakh SSR was the second...
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    renouncing the country's inherited nuclear arsenal and closing the Semipalatinsk Test Site. Despite these accomplishments, challenges persisted due to widespread...
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  • Soviet Socialist Republic in present-day Kazakhstan, near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. The film does not have dialogue. The main character, Dina...
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  • Superior temporal sulcus Sinus tarsi syndrome, a foot condition Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons Staffordshire, county in England, Chapman...
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  • anime studio Polygon Records, a 1950s record company Semipalatinsk Test Site, a nuclear test site near Semey, Kazakhstan The Polygon, Southampton, a district...
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  • space tests and 124 peaceful use tests. Most of the tests took place at the Southern Test Site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan and the Northern Test Site at...
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  • using liquid hydrogen propellant. The engine was ground-tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and its use was incorporated in the Kurchatov Mars 1994...
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  • RDS-5 (section Testing)
    versions of the RDS-5 were tested during a series of 3 tests on September 3, 8 and 10 1953 in the Semipalatinsk test site. The test on September 3 (Joe 6.)...
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