Kazakhstan: Astana takes the lead in lobbying for nuclear-free world

20.07.2009

A major box-office hit in Kazakhstan last year was "The Gift to Stalin," a movie that introduced a new generation to a poignant page in Kazakhstan’s history as a Soviet nuclear guinea pig. The film ends with a mushroom cloud engulfing the steppe as the Soviet Union detonated its "gift to Stalin" - its first nuclear device on August 29, 1949. 1106