clipped from izismile.com Kazakhstan and Consequences of Radiation (25 pics + text) Here are the pictures of Ed Ou from Kazakhstan. During the 20th century, Kazakhstan was the site of major Soviet projects, including Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign, the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and the Semipalatinsk "Polygon", the USSR's primary nuclear weapon testing site. For 60 years, Russians tested there its first nuclear weapon called "First Lightning". The Kazakh people living near by the nuclear site felt this testing through three generations. Now let’s see the radiation consequences.