Haunted by Past, Kazakhstan shuns Nuclear Bomb
14.11.2011
By Robin Paxton
Khafiz Matayev dived for cover when he saw the mushroom cloud rise fr om the steppe. Sixty years have not dulled his memory of the sound that accompanied the blast.
"That day, we heard the voice of the earth itself," he says.
Matayev, 81, grew up next to the Soviet...