On September 29, 2022, Astana hosted the presentation of the Kazakh version of the book by Togzhan Kasenova, Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Albany. The organizer of the event is the Representative Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
«Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb» plunges into the unusual and little-known nuclear history of Kazakhstan from the Soviet period to the present day. The monograph talks about the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site and how the nuclear past is reflected in the nuclear present of the country.
We should recall that the book was first published in February 2022 by Stanford University Press. The presentation of the English version of the book «Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb» was held by the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
