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In this talk, Dr. Togzhan Kassenova will describe the continuing legacy of the Soviet nuclear tests in Kazakhstan. For forty years, the Soviet military conducted nuclear tests in Eastern Kazakhstan at the Semipalatinsk testing site, close to inhabited areas. Thirty years after the last nuclear test, the local population still lives under the nuclear shadow and suffers from poor health.
Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY- Albany. She is an expert on nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, strategic trade controls, sanctions implementation, and financial crime prevention. Kassenova is adjunct faculty at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and a non- resident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2011 to 2015 Kassenova served on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.
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