NUKETOWN
Inside community plagued by deformities and freak illnesses after living next to the site of 460 Soviet nuke tests
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Updated: 4 Feb 2021, 10:50
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DEFORMITIES, rare cancers and chilling levels of suicide blight a community living less than a 100 miles from a Soviet nuclear test site.
Some 460 nukes were detonated in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, and thousands of people living there today have horrific health problems because of the radioactive fallout.
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Berik who was born not only blind, but disfigured after years of winds blowing radioactive fallout over his villageCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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People (ringed in red) can be seen coming out of their homes after nuclear weapon explodes during the night
New nuclear treaty underlines Vatican s concern for poor
Nuclear weapons are no more the pinnacle of a state s monopoly on violence and the ultimate signifier of domination
German activists of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons stage a protest in Berlin on Jan. 22. They were angry that Germany was not among the countries that ratified the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
When the global Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force on Jan. 22, it destroyed the myth that nuclear weapons ensure global peace.
The treaty, backed by the Vatican and signed by 123 United Nations member states, will apply the brakes on the mad rush to build new nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles by nine declared nuclear states.
Protesters call on Hopkins to drop nuclear weapons research
| January 27, 2021 Members of Prevent Nuclear War Maryland, a Baltimore-based anti-war, anti-nuclear weapons organization, protested the University’s involvement in nuclear weapons research with the U.S. government on Friday, Jan. 22.
The group also celebrated the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) a legally binding international treaty prohibiting the development, ownership and deployment of nuclear weapons by nation………..
On Friday, around a dozen protesters held bright yellow banners reading “nuclear weapons are illegal” on the Charles Street median and in front of the marble Hopkins sign on the Merrick Gateway, conversing with passers-by. Protesters criticized the University’s engagement with nuclear weapons research at the Applied Physics Lab (APL).
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