07.09.2009
Decades of Soviet nuclear testing on the steppes of Kazakhstan have been blamed for an alarming number of health problems suffered by residents in the area. Now scientists are trying to determine whether the victims are passing on faulty genes to their children, the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie reports. "It looked like a mushroom, it grew bigger and bigger. It felt like a small earthquake," says 70-year-old Zikesh, from the Kazakh city of Semey (called Semipalatinsk in Soviet times). 756
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