Atomic Steppe : How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
Kassenova, Togzhan
Broń jądrowa, Nauki polityczne
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Autor
Kassenova, Togzhan
Tytuł
Atomic Steppe : How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
ISBN
1-5036-2993-7
Objętość
1 online resource (384 p.)
Hasła przedmiotowe
Broń jądrowa
Nauki polityczne
Informacje dodatkowe
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS, TABLES, AND PHOTOGRAPHS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART 1: RULED BY RUSSIA, SCARRED BY NUCLEAR TESTS: KAZAKHSTAN UNDER THE RUSSIAN SHADOW -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 THE STEPPE -- CHAPTER 2 FORTY YEARS OF NUCLEAR TESTS -- CHAPTER 3 THE HUMAN TOLL -- CHAPTER 4 THE NATION RISES -- CHAPTER 5 THE SWAN SONG OF THE SOVIET UNION -- PART 2: FREEDOM DAWNS, BUT THE ARSENAL REMAINS -- CHAPTER 6 FEARS IN WASHINGTON AND ALMA-ATA -- CHAPTER 7 A TEMPORARY NUCLEAR POWER -- CHAPTER 8 THE FINAL PUSH -- CHAPTER 9 PROJECT SAPPHIRE AND THE NUNN-LUGAR COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAM -- CHAPTER 10 FAREWELL TO BOMBS -- EPILOGUE REIMAGINING THE ATOMIC STEPPE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
In English.
Streszczenie
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
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