1935: USSR and US Negotiate the Sale of the US Naval Ordnance Factory in West Virginia to the Soviets

Throughout the 1930s, the Soviet Union expressed tremendous interest in procuring advanced weapons (and the means to produce the same) from a number of countries, not least of which was the United States. We’ve uncovered a small stack of documents that outline one specific line of inquiry: the attempted purchase of the US Naval OrdnanceContinueContinue reading “1935: USSR and US Negotiate the Sale of the US Naval Ordnance Factory in West Virginia to the Soviets”