February 28th, 1989 – Birth of the anti-nuclear movement “Nevada-Semipalatinsk”
One of the more important but more forgotten dates of the anti-nuclear movement is February 28, 1989. This was the day when Kazakh writer Olzhas Suleimenov broke from the plan of a televised poetry reading to speak about the effects of nuclear weapons tests in eastern Kazakhstan. His act ofRead More