In the northeast region of Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, sits a stretch of land where the Soviet Union spent years testing the atomic bomb. During the Cold War, the government conducted more than 400 nuclear tests at a compound known as the "Polygon" in Semipalatinsk, a city 200,000 people...

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...