Partisans, Plutonium, and the Polygon: The Domestic and Global Impact of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is about the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement (NSM), an anti-nuclear environmental movement that formed in Kazakhstan at the height of perestroika in 1989.It argues that the NSM had a notable impact on local and global politics.This thesis demonstrates that the NSM tapped into concerns about pollution that had existed among the Kazakh intelligentsia and ordinary citizens since the Brezhnev years.It shows how the NSM emerged in a period of heightened political and environmental tension.This thesis highlights how the organization was driven by nationalistic ideas and concerns about health and environmental sustainability.It traces the organization's activities in Kazakhstan into the post-Soviet period.On a global scale, this thesis discusses the movement's links to "citizen diplomacy" at the end of the Cold War.Analyzing the relationship between American and Soviet-Kazakh activists, this thesis reveals that citizen diplomacy was a complex and long-lasting phenomenon.provided me with the support for this project's realization.I would also like to thank the members
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".