EchoThemOut:Environmental Justice Podcast Semipalatinsk Survivors’ Story through Research.

This is a podcast about the research done on victims of Kazakhstan Soviet-era nuclear testing at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Two guests are telling about their trips to villages where survivors live, where they have met with families who suffered or are still suffering from nuclear tests conducted in the past century. They uncover the insights from their research and share tips for those young researchers who are planning to do a victim study in the future. This podcast is done as a final work for the Disaster Policy Class delivered by Prof. Scott Knowles at KAIST, South Korea, where I am currently pursuing my Master’s Degree in Science and Technology Policy. Guests: 1) Alimzhan Akhmetov, Director of the Center for International Security and Policy (​Nur-Sultan,. Kazakhstan) 2) Togzhan Kassenova, a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Re
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