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Arranging a visit to East Kazakhstan’s sprawling, desolate wasteland and secret Soviet nuclear town is far from easy. But the reward is a surreal experience like no other, writes Stephen Rea

Situated somewhere on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, sit the radioactive ruins and secret cities leftover from the Cold War. These restricted military sites, unrecognized on the map until long after the Cold War ended, were reserved purely for the pursuits of science and war. Weapon testing and undercover scientific studies took place here as the Russians vied to compete with the kind of bombs America was dropping on Japan at the time. As soon as word of these newly-mapped locations r...

The secret military exercises would alter the country’s fate—and lands.

The secret military exercises would alter the country’s fate—and lands.

Kazakhstan has Borat to blame for its association with mankinis, potassium and prostitutes – the reality is quite different