It 's hard to look at them -- babies with bulging eyes and malformed brains , or conjoined twins locked in a contorted embrace . Thousands in Kazakhstan remain scarred from decades of nuclear tests . The Soviet Union did not evacuate villages when testing began . Deformed woman : `` If only there had been no bombs , I could have been equal '' to my husband and children -- but now we are all deformed! "
Thousands in Kazakhstan remain scarred from decades of nuclear tests . The Soviet Union did not evacuate villages when testing began . Deformed woman : `` If only there had been no bombs , I could have been equal '' to my husband and children -- but now we are all deformed! "