The surviving inhabitants of a Soviet-era town in northeastern where 456 bombs were detonated on their doorstep, have revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health, with spiking along with severe birth defects. Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the headquarters of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program. At the time, it was not even visible on maps due to the high level of secrecy. It is estimated that more than one million people lived in and around the remote settlement when the nuclear program was running from 1949 to 1989 - but today there just a few thousand people remaining and many of the buildings are stripped bare and derelict.
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