Kazakhstan’s legacy of nuclear testing and its post-Soviet nuclear future

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Notes

1 See John J. Mearsheimer, “The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (1993), pp. 50-66; Foreign Affairs, “Conference Call with John Mearsheimer on the Ukraine Crisis,” September 4, 2014, <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/press/2014-09-04/conference-call-john-mearsheimer-ukraine-crisis>.

2 See Donna M. Goldstein and Magdalena E. Stawkowski, “James V. Neel and Yuri E. Dubrova: Cold War Debates and the Genetic Effects of Low-Dose Radiation,” Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 48 (2015), pp. 67-98.

3 See Barbara Rose Johnston, ed., Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War, (School for Advanced Research Press: Santa Fe, NM, 2007).

4 See Kathleen L. Purvis-Roberts, Cynthia A. Werner, and Irene Frank, “Perceived Risks from Radiation and Nuclear Testing near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan: A Comparison between Physicians, Scientists, and the Public,” Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2007), pp. 291-302; Stanley D. Brunn, “Fifty Years of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Semipalatinsk, Kazak[h]stan: Juxtaposed Worlds of Blasts and Silences, Security and Risks, Denials and Memory ,” in S.D. Brunn, ed., Engineering Earth (Springer: Dordrecht, 2011), pp. 1789–1818; Catherine Alexander, “A Chronotope of Expansion: Resisting Spatio-Temporal Limits in a Kazakh Nuclear Town,” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (2020), pp. 1-24; Susanne Bauer, “Fallout Memory Trajectories at Semipalatinsk: Reassembling the Post-Soviet past,” in Susanne Bauer and Tanja Penter, eds., Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 196-216.

5 Magdalena E. Stawkowski, “’I am a radioactive mutant’: Emergent biological subjectivities at Kazakhstan’s Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2016), pp. 144-157; Magdalena E. Stawkowski, “Radiophobia Had to Be Reinvented,” Culture Theory and Critique, Vol. 58, No. 4 (2017), pp. 357-374.

6 Magdalena E. Stawkowski, “Radiophobia Had to Be Reinvented,” Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 58, No. 4 (2017), pp. 357-374.