Nuclear Deformity

Kazakhstan has been testing nuclear weapons since 1949. It's effects on the people living there are tremendous. The children that were born while all of this nuclear testing was going on are extremely deformed. Their heads are perched on their shoulders, their eyes aren't symmetrical, and some even look like something out of a horror film. They weren't born this way because of a genetic malfunction- or were they? The nuclear testing caused their genes to deform. Their parent's had no hand in passing these traits to them- just the country. It is extremely devestating that a country would do this to their own people just to test nuclear weapons. Couldn't they have tested them in an extremely remote place? Instead they tested them pretty much in people's back yards. When the Soviet Union chose Kazakhastan as the area they would test their nuclear weapons, no one bothered to evacuate the residents. Local officials say there were thousands of people who lived in the area while this was going on. That means that out of those thousand that conceived, they all had affected children. The region has the highest suicide rate because of this. People don't want to live with the trauma that the nuclear testing affected. These people have undergone a tremendous amount of suffering all because of nuclear testing that someone could have evacuated them for. The problem of the defects are so big that there is a local museum of mutations to show all the mutations caused by this. They are really hard to look at because of their bulging eyes and malformed brains. It is a horrid site and you would never know that nuclear testing would have this much effect especially this many years later.