International Day against Nuclear Tests marked with Las Vegas event
15:01, 2 September 2011
WASHINGTON, DC. September 2. KAZINFORM In celebration of August 29, 2011 being the International Day against Nuclear Tests and the 20th Anniversary of the closure of the Soviet nuclear site at Semipalatinsk, the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United States co-hosted a roundtable discussion at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, NV on Thursday, September 1, 2011.
The event, entitled "Nuclear Testing Legacy: The Tale of Two Cultures," which the Museum and the Embassy co-hosted with environmental group Global Green USA, convene experts and officials from the U.S. and Kazakhstan to discuss the historic Semipalatinsk closure two decades ago, (which the U.N. day was declared to commemorate), the horrific impact that testing has on nearby populations and our environment and the prospects of halting all nuclear testing worldwide in the future, the press service of the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the United States reports.