Washington, April 18: A new research has indicated that Semipalatinsk - a historic Soviet nuclear site from the Cold War era can offer insights for present day nuclear monitoring in the world.
This nuclear test site had served as the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing ground during the Cold War.
From 1949 to 1989, Semipalatinsk was scrutinized furtively by U2 spy planes, satellites and seismologists hoping to learn more about the Soviet Union’s weapons capabilities.
Now, for the first time, researchers can compare the information gleaned from these operations with the actual records from the test site to see how accurate Western researchers were in predicting the number and size of Semipalatinsk’s nuclear detonations.