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Atomic Steppe
How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
Taschenbuch von Togzhan Kassenova
Sprache: Englisch

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"Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons--or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. For Soviet officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing. Two-headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health disaster for Kazakhstan--compounded, when the Soviet Union collapsed, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear power. Equipped with intimate personal perspective and untapped archival resources, Togzhan Kassenova introduces us to the engineers turned diplomats, villagers turned activists, and scientists turned pacifists who worked toward disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still present around the world, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their nuclear inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security"--
"Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons--or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. For Soviet officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing. Two-headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health disaster for Kazakhstan--compounded, when the Soviet Union collapsed, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear power. Equipped with intimate personal perspective and untapped archival resources, Togzhan Kassenova introduces us to the engineers turned diplomats, villagers turned activists, and scientists turned pacifists who worked toward disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still present around the world, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their nuclear inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security"--
Über den Autor
Togzhan Kassenova is senior fellow at the University at Albany, SUNY and a nonresident fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Steppe

2. Forty Years of Nuclear Tests

3. The Human Toll

4. The Nation Rises

5. The Swan Song of the Soviet Union

6. Fears in Washington and Alma-Ata

7. A Temporary Nuclear Power

8. The Final Push

9. Project Sapphire and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

10. Farewell to Bombs

11. Epilogue: Reimagining the Atomic Steppe
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 384
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503632431
ISBN-10: 1503632431
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kassenova, Togzhan
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 229 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Togzhan Kassenova
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
preigu-id: 120457543
Über den Autor
Togzhan Kassenova is senior fellow at the University at Albany, SUNY and a nonresident fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Steppe

2. Forty Years of Nuclear Tests

3. The Human Toll

4. The Nation Rises

5. The Swan Song of the Soviet Union

6. Fears in Washington and Alma-Ata

7. A Temporary Nuclear Power

8. The Final Push

9. Project Sapphire and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

10. Farewell to Bombs

11. Epilogue: Reimagining the Atomic Steppe
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 384
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503632431
ISBN-10: 1503632431
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kassenova, Togzhan
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 229 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Togzhan Kassenova
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
preigu-id: 120457543
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