The Polygon: The Untold Secret of the Soviet Union's Nuclear Testing Program in Kazakhstan

The Polygon examines the village of Sarzhal in Kazakhstan, adjacent to the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, where the USSR detonated 116 nuclear bombs over 42 years.

Mushroom clouds were witnessed by thousands of Kazakh villagers unaware that nuclear fallout was raining down on them. The Polygon takes us on a journey from the twisted Cold War experiments to those victims who remain today.