Dinara, an interactive media student (disclaimer, she’s also my girlfriend) here at Ohio University has just finished a website about the former nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk polygon in her home country of Kazakhstan.

It’s a pretty fascinating site, which is the culmination of research and two trips to the region where she went to villages and a hospital, took photographs and interviewed people there today. This place, which consisted of the fairly large city Semipalatinsk, used to not even be on the map when they were blowing up bombs there years ago …. they said no one lived there.