Stories: Nuclear-test-ban Treaty
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Twilight for a Landmark in Arms Control
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union ran a highly developed program to study infectious diseases such as anthrax, the plague and cholera, with an eye toward wiping out U.S. livestock. Now more than 60 years old, one such high-security lab sits decaying a short drive from the largest city in this former...
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Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister on All Things Nuclear
Kazakhstan’s foreign minister, Erlan Idrissov, spoke for an hour to ten journalists who participated in a reporting trip to Kazakhstan in August, a huge but little-known Central Asian country whose government has been active in global nuclear issues. The excursion was organized by the International Reporting Project in collaboration with the Stanley Foundation. Here are excerpts of...