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Lynn Johnson
Freelance / National Geographic Magazine

"Weapons of Mass Destruction"  

"test of time" It's been half a century since the Soviets set off their first nuclear bomb here on the Kazakh steppe, and 13 years since the last test. So the arms race may seem like a scrapbook memory in the test-blast photos of a security officer at the site. But it's not: The weapons it spawned left a trail of ruin, and their menace is as real as ever.
 
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