Community ravaged by deformities and illnesses in nuclear test fallout zone
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES The Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site, in eastern Kazakhstan. Thousands of residents now suffer with health problems
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Babies are born with defects (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
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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