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3. See for instance the statements at the OSCE summit of 2010, https://www.osce.
org/event/summit_2010 and the UN Treaties documentation, https://www.un
.org/nwfz/content/treaty-nuclear-weapon-free-zone-central-asia.
4. Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations (New York,
NY: New York University Press, 2000): 177.
5. Scholarship on Kazakhstan was promoted and gained visibility through the creation of new sections in state libraries as well as the development of textbooks foregrounding a new canon of Kazakh philosophy, see for instance: O.A. Segizbaev,
Kazakhskaia Filosofiia XV-nachala XX veka. (Almaty: Gylym, 1996).
6. Roy, The New Central Asia, xx.
7. For an overview on programs in Kazakhstan and the Altai region, see Susanne
Bauer, The Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing. Cancer Epidemiology in Areas
Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan. (Frankfurt am Main/New
York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2006); for the Kazakhstan program, see
Susanne Bauer, Boris I. Gusev, Tatiana Belikhina, Timur Moldagaliev, Kazbek
Apsalikov, “The Legacies of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan. Fallout, Public
Health and Societal Issues,” in Deborah Oughton and Sven-Ole Hansson (eds.),
Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2013), 239–258.
8. For the scientific program in the Altai region, see Ya. N Shoikhet, V.I. Kiselev,
V.M. Loborev, V.V. Sudakov, A.I. Algazin, V.F. Demin, and A.A. Lagutin. The 29
August 1949 Nuclear Test. Radioactive Impact on the Altai Region Population. (Barnaul:
Scientific research Institute for Regional Medico-Ecological Problems, 1998)
and Ya. N Shoikhet, V. I. Kiselev, A. I. Algazin, I. B. Kolyado, S. Bauer, and B.
Grosche, “Fallout from nuclear tests: health effects in the Altai Region,” Radiation
and Environmental Biophysics 41 (2002): 69–74.
9. Pierre Nora and Lawrence D. Kritzman, Realms of Memory: The Construction of
the French Past (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998); Jan Assmann,
“Communicative and Cultural Memory”, in A. Erll and A. Nünning (eds.), Cultural Memory Studies. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, (Berlin, New
York, NY: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 109–118.; Maurice Halbwachs, On collective
memory (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992).
10. The notion of fallout memory practices takes up the concept from Geoffrey Bowker,
Memory Practices in the Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
11. Anna Storm, Fredrik Krohn Andersson, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. Urban nuclear reactors and the security theatre: the making of atomic heritage in Chicago, Moscow
and Stockholm, in Heike Oevermann and Eszter Gantner (eds.), Securing Urban
Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization, (London: Routledge, 2019), 111–129.
12. Hannah Landecker, Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History, Body and
Society 22, 4 (2016): 19–52.
13. The concept of reassembling is foregrounded in order to empirically open up the
ways these scientific memory practices align with politics. See Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2005).
14. Gabrielle Hecht, “Nuclear Ontologies,” Constellations, 13, 3 (2006): 320–331.
15. The test site of China’s nuclear weapons program at Lop Nor is situated in this
region, comprising 22 atmospheric nuclear tests (1964–1980) and 22 underground
tests (1970–1996), see B.B. Bennett, L.E. de Geer, D. Dour, “Nuclear Weapons
Test Programmes of the Different Countries”, in Sir Frederick Warner and René
J.C. Kirchmann (eds.), Nuclear Test Explosions. Environmental and Human Impacts
(Chichester, New York, NY: Wiley, 2000), 13–32.
16. Michael D. Gordin, Red cloud at dawn. Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly (New York, NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2009).
3. See for instance the statements at the OSCE summit of 2010, https://www.osce.
org/event/summit_2010 and the UN Treaties documentation, https://www.un
.org/nwfz/content/treaty-nuclear-weapon-free-zone-central-asia.
4. Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations (New York,
NY: New York University Press, 2000): 177.
5. Scholarship on Kazakhstan was promoted and gained visibility through the creation of new sections in state libraries as well as the development of textbooks foregrounding a new canon of Kazakh philosophy, see for instance: O.A. Segizbaev,
Kazakhskaia Filosofiia XV-nachala XX veka. (Almaty: Gylym, 1996).
6. Roy, The New Central Asia, xx.
7. For an overview on programs in Kazakhstan and the Altai region, see Susanne
Bauer, The Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing. Cancer Epidemiology in Areas
Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan. (Frankfurt am Main/New
York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2006); for the Kazakhstan program, see
Susanne Bauer, Boris I. Gusev, Tatiana Belikhina, Timur Moldagaliev, Kazbek
Apsalikov, “The Legacies of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan. Fallout, Public
Health and Societal Issues,” in Deborah Oughton and Sven-Ole Hansson (eds.),
Social and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Management (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2013), 239–258.
8. For the scientific program in the Altai region, see Ya. N Shoikhet, V.I. Kiselev,
V.M. Loborev, V.V. Sudakov, A.I. Algazin, V.F. Demin, and A.A. Lagutin. The 29
August 1949 Nuclear Test. Radioactive Impact on the Altai Region Population. (Barnaul:
Scientific research Institute for Regional Medico-Ecological Problems, 1998)
and Ya. N Shoikhet, V. I. Kiselev, A. I. Algazin, I. B. Kolyado, S. Bauer, and B.
Grosche, “Fallout from nuclear tests: health effects in the Altai Region,” Radiation
and Environmental Biophysics 41 (2002): 69–74.
9. Pierre Nora and Lawrence D. Kritzman, Realms of Memory: The Construction of
the French Past (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998); Jan Assmann,
“Communicative and Cultural Memory”, in A. Erll and A. Nünning (eds.), Cultural Memory Studies. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, (Berlin, New
York, NY: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 109–118.; Maurice Halbwachs, On collective
memory (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1992).
10. The notion of fallout memory practices takes up the concept from Geoffrey Bowker,
Memory Practices in the Sciences (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
11. Anna Storm, Fredrik Krohn Andersson, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė. Urban nuclear reactors and the security theatre: the making of atomic heritage in Chicago, Moscow
and Stockholm, in Heike Oevermann and Eszter Gantner (eds.), Securing Urban
Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization, (London: Routledge, 2019), 111–129.
12. Hannah Landecker, Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History, Body and
Society 22, 4 (2016): 19–52.
13. The concept of reassembling is foregrounded in order to empirically open up the
ways these scientific memory practices align with politics. See Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2005).
14. Gabrielle Hecht, “Nuclear Ontologies,” Constellations, 13, 3 (2006): 320–331.
15. The test site of China’s nuclear weapons program at Lop Nor is situated in this
region, comprising 22 atmospheric nuclear tests (1964–1980) and 22 underground
tests (1970–1996), see B.B. Bennett, L.E. de Geer, D. Dour, “Nuclear Weapons
Test Programmes of the Different Countries”, in Sir Frederick Warner and René
J.C. Kirchmann (eds.), Nuclear Test Explosions. Environmental and Human Impacts
(Chichester, New York, NY: Wiley, 2000), 13–32.
16. Michael D. Gordin, Red cloud at dawn. Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly (New York, NY: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2009).