Articles by Dennis Francis, Robert Floyd

Enough is Enough: End Nuclear Testing Once and For All

In 2009 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 29 August the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. This date recalled the official closing of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site in today’s Kazakhstan on 29 August 1991; that one site alone having seen 456nuclear test explosions between 1949 and 1989. Between 1954 and 1984 there was…