Atomic steppe : how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb / Togzhan Kassenova.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kassenova, Togzhan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Nuclear disarmament > Kazakhstan > History.
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > Kazakhstan > History.
Nuclear weapons > Kazakhstan > History.
Nuclear weapons > Kazakhstan > History > Testing.
Désarmement nucléaire > Kazakhstan > Histoire.
Armes nucléaires > Politique gouvernementale > Kazakhstan > Histoire.
Armes nucléaires > Kazakhstan > Histoire.
Nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons > Government policy.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
Kazakhstan.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The steppe
  • Forty years of nuclear tests
  • The human toll
  • The nation rises
  • The swan song of the Soviet Union
  • Fears in Washington and Alma-Ata
  • A temporary nuclear power
  • The final push
  • Project Sapphire and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
  • Farewell to bombs
  • Epilogue : reimagining the atomic steppe.