Word: kazakstan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technology," warns Defense Secretary William Cohen. Clinton is especially hurt at the nuclear breakout: a cherished presidential legacy, significantly turning back the nuclear clock, will not be handed on. He'd devoted considerable energy to corralling Russia's strategic weaponry, denuclearizing the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakstan, and containing North Korea's atomic program...
HOUSTON: Russia's space program was dealt another blow as a Zenit-2 booster rocket carrying a military satellite exploded and crashed after liftoff from Kazakstan. The explosion was caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space...