‘The most nuked place on Earth…’ This is how the Semipalatinsk 18,500 square km testing ground on the Kazakh Steppe is described.
It was here that the Soviet Union brought its weapons of mass destruction out to play and by the time it was abandoned, a full quarter of the world’s nuclear bombs had been exploded in the region.
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