Surviving inhabitants of top secret Soviet-era town where more than 400 NUCLEAR BOMBS were detonated reveal horrors of living in 'the most nuked place on Earth' where radiation left 'everyone' riddled

The surviving inhabitants of a Soviet-era town in northeastern Kazakhstan where 456 bombs were detonated on their doorstep, have revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health, with cancer 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. Nadezhda Golovina unknowingly witnessed hundreds of nuclear bombs go off in her youth 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 Today there just a few thousand people remaining in the remote region and many of the buildings are derelict From time to time their houses would violently shake and they would see plumes of dust erupting in the distance but these aftereffects were written off as extreme weather cycles. Uncle Khamit, pictured, helped dismantle radioactive weapons after the Soviet Union fell During the 1950s, it was reported that one detonation in the area resulted in four times the number of cases of acute radiation sickness than those from the Chernobyl disaster Uncle Khamit moved to Kurchatov in 1976 and said that when he first moved there, the nuclear bomb explosions were a scary experience. Uncle Serikpay moved to Kurchatov as a miner and his role was to help construct passages to 'prepare everything for the tests' While some were not effected by the radiation, many people were, as a woman called Lyubov Filina explains It was only in 1989 that information about radioactive contamination from the Semipalatinsk test site became public and the findings triggered mass outcry 'Older people, everyone was afraid because everything became dark there, everything was covered in dust, the feeling was terrible.