Fellows & Editors
Rachel Oswald
- Trip:
- Kazakhstan 2013
- Affiliation:
- Global Security Newswire
- Country:
- Kazakhstan
- Year:
- 2013
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Rachel Oswald is a Washington, DC-based reporter for National Journal's Global Security Newswire, where she covers a wide range of defense issues, including missile defense and North Korea’s nuclear weapons work. Prior to joining GSN in October 2009, Rachel covered Georgia politics and local government for more than two years at The Covington News, where she won four Georgia Press Association awards for investigative journalism and business reporting. She is a graduate of the George Washington University, where she majored in Middle Eastern Studies.
Stories
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Fifty Years After Above-Ground Blasts, a Sense of Calm at Kazakhstani Nuclear Site
It’s been a half-century since the last atmospheric nuclear test was conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site. In the years since, the grass has grown back to cover craters created...
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High-Grade Plutonium Locked in Kazakhstan Mountain at Minimal Risk
Though much of Kazakhstan’s Cold War-era nuclear detritus -- left over from years of Soviet atomic tests -- was sealed in a mountain years ago, it theoretically could be removed...
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Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site Still Holds Mysteries
The nuclear testing ground of the former Soviet Union is a vast, barren area close to the size of Lake Ontario that continues to hold some amount of security risk. During the...
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Central Asia’s First Biothreat Research Lab to Play Threat-Reduction Role
A state-of-the-art medical research laboratory is under construction in a suburb of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s business capital, using U.S. funds aimed at helping reorient former biological weapons-related research under the...
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Complacency May Be Kazakhstan’s Biggest Nonproliferation Risk, Some Experts Say
{image-1} This former Soviet republic’s location in an obscure corner of the world has not stopped it from becoming a leader on the frontiers of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, but...
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