in twenty children born were with genetic defects. British film-maker Antony Butts documented some of the genetic health impacts in his 2010 film After the Apocalypse. A recently declassified CIA report provides a first-hand witness account of the immediate impacts of a nuclear test near Semipalatinsk in 1955. In this report, a source who was in the vicinity of a Soviet thermonuclear test in November 1955 describes experiencing loss of hearing, "the air...crackling up with pressure" as if the "air was tearing up," and the ground shaking. Ethnographic data from anthropological study detail some of the unique perspectives of those populations that are affected and still live within the area of radiation exposure that allow those populations to understand their circumstances and the biological subjectivity of concepts like safety and their survival within an area still affected by radiation. Site of the signing of the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone treaty Semipalatinsk was the site that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan chose for the signing of the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone on 8 September 2006, also commemorating the 15th anniversary of the test site's closing. In popular culture The 2014 film Ispytanie is a fictionalized account of the first Soviet nuclear test from the perspective of some of the local inhabitants. See also Anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan List of nuclear reactors List of nuclear tests List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Nevada Test Site Novaya Zemlya Test Site Nuclear energy in Kazakhstan Operation Plumbbob Struan Stevenson Totskoye nuclear exercise Ulba Metallurgical Plant Aral Sea disaster References External links National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan website The Nuclear Threat Initiative's page on the STS nuclearweaponarchive.org/ on the Soviet nuclear program Documentary about the tests and their effects on the populace Short documentary series "My home: nuclear base Semipalatinsk-21" Panoramic photos and videos of the test site Nuclear test sites in Kazakhstan Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Science and technology in Kazakhstan Nuclear technology in Kazakhstan Nuclear test sites Environmental disasters in Asia East Kazakhstan Region 1949 establishments in the Soviet Union Atomic tourism