Photo by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 09.27.2019
Members of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the National Nuclear Center in Kazakhstan, stand on top of Degelen Mountain at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan where 181 underground test tunnels were destroyed in the 1990s....
Photo by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 09.26.2019
Members of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency stand on the fields at Semipaltinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan where experimental equipment and infrastructure was left behind in 1991 after nuclear testing was conducted by the Soviet Union....
Photo by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 09.26.2019
A drone flies between the remaining Experimental Field “geese” structures which held instrumentation and diagnostic equipment during the Soviet Union’s first nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan....
Photo by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 09.24.2019
A look at a bore hole dug for underground testing at Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
Photo by Andrea Chaney | Defense Threat Reduction Agency | 09.23.2019
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s first program manager for the Degelen Mountain infrastructure elimination project in Kazakhstan, Luke Kluchko, walks through scavenged ruins outside the mountain where his project led the charge in destroying and closing 181 tunnels used for underground nuclear tests....
