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"UNDER A NUCLEAR CLOUD"
SEMEY, KAZAKHSTAN, NOVEMBER 24 Berik Syzdykov, 29, smokes a cigarette outside a hill overlooking the Kazakh city of Semey Nov. 24, 2008. Berik is one of thousands of Kazakhs born deformed due to radiation from Soviet atomic testing in the Polygon during the Cold War.
