Kazakhs Remember Their Country's Nuclear Past

For more than 40 years the Soviet-era nuclear test site of the Polygon, located in eastern Kazakhstan about 60 kilometers from Kurchatov, witnessed more than 450 test nuclear detonations. During a rally in Semey, location of the Polygon test site and formerly called Semipalatinsk, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev headlined the Peace Mission 2009 rally, held ahead of the 20th anniversary of the moratorium at Semipalatinsk, where the last test took place on October 19, 1989.