“Echoes of Semipalatinsk: The Soviet Nuclear Legacy and Kazakhstan.” Discover one of the darkest chapters of Soviet history, the nuclear tests in the Semipalatinsk region. The lecture will cover the origins of the test site and the health and environmental consequences of the tests.

Presented by Togzhan Kassenova, a renowned researcher and expert on the Soviet nuclear legacy, senior fellow at the Center for Policy Research at the University at Albany and with the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.