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Today is the International Day Against Nuclear Tests and the 34th anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, in Kazakhstan, on 29 August 1991. 

It is an important day to learn about the ongoing impacts of the more than 2,000 nuclear detonations that have harmed people and the planet for decades, and to support the advocacy of nuclear survivors working to address those harms and press for nuclear abolition. 

It was thanks to a transnational survivor-led activist movement, the Nevada-Semipalatinsk International Anti-Nuclear Movement <[link removed]>, that the Semipalatinsk Site was closed more than 30 years ago. 


This international solidarity continues to this day. 

<[link removed]>In March, young Qazaq and Indigenous activists in the United States convened at the United Nations for an event <[link removed]> they called “Nevada-Semey 2.0: Transnational Solidarity and Intergenerational Advocacy towards Nuclear Justice.” This meeting, taking place on the sidelines of the  Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), connected advocates from both nations to amplify their collective voice in the ongoing struggle for nuclear justice.

Survivors from around the globe came to the UN in March for the TPNW meeting <[link removed]>. They engaged in discussions with diplomats on the Treaty’s provisions on assisting survivors and remediating nuclear contaminated environments and connected with other survivors at the dozens of civil society- and survivor-led meetings taking place inside and outside of the UN <[link removed]>.

You can learn more about where nuclear weapons have been detonated, what their impacts have been, including listening directly to survivors, and about their advocacy for justice on this interactive map website.

<[link removed]>Nuclear test impacts <[link removed]>Take a look and share what you learned, on social media, or in conversation with a friend.

Did you know the explosion from a nuclear test itself would allow you to see the bones through your hands? ICAN's interactive nuclear testing map shares the stories of survivors of nuclear testing across the world, in their own words. #nuclearban







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Onwards,

Alicia Sanders-Zakre
ICAN Policy and Research Coordinator

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