The film “Genetic Passport” was broadcast on HBO in March 2014 and nominated an “Emmy Award”.

From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated more than 450 nuclear bombs on the people of Kazakhstan in an area known as the Semipalatinsk Test Site. Hundreds of thousands of Kazakh people suffered from the blasts and, therefore, not only were they exposed to radiation, but it became part of their DNA. More recently, a Kazakh doctor has been trying to implement a mandatory genetic passport, something that would allow the Kazakh people to know if their genes were damaged by the radiation in order to prevent the births of a new generation of deformed children. Thomas Morton goes to Kazakhstan to learn more about this controversial initiative.
Dr Nurmagambertov had his wife & child die because of the poisoning, so he understands the pain and struggle associated with their situation in the villages surrounding the Polygon, and he wasn’t saying that the passport would ban victims from marriage or family, but would sort of be like a warning to people that your children could easily (probably likely) be born with debilitating, grotesque deformities or be stillborn.