The record of close calls over the decades shows just how near the world was to a nuclear catastrophe. The time to eliminate the man-made threat of nuclear weapons is now.
Nikita Kislitsin, an employee of Russian cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., was detained on June 22 and Kazakh authorities are considering Washington's extradition request.
The event was an offshoot of the Congress of World and Traditional Religions first held in 2003 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
It was assumed that the US leaving Afghanistan would mean that Central Asian countries would assume they have been abandoned to the Russia-China anaconda, but that may be changing.
The country heads to the polls for parliamentary and local elections, voting for the second time since November as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev moves to implement promised reforms.