In October 1940, two young Soviet physicists named Viktor Maslov and Vladimir Shpinel, working at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology (UFTI) in Kharkiv, submitted a revolutionary invention claim titled “On the Use of Uranium as an Explosive and Toxic Agent.” This proposal would come to be recognized as the first valid technical designContinueContinue reading “October 1940: Soviet Patent on Creation of Atomic Bomb Mocked and Rejected by Soviet Defense Engineers”
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London-Based Soviet Spy and Klaus Fuchs Discuss Status of England’s Progress in Building Atomic Bomb, 1941
The following is a decrypted Top Secret message from the head of the London rezidentura to the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army General Staff on work in England to create an atomic bomb. The message provides information provided by Agent “Baron” (Simon Davidovich Kremer) regarding his meeting with German physicist-turned-spy Klaus Fuchs (covername “Fuka”)ContinueContinue reading “London-Based Soviet Spy and Klaus Fuchs Discuss Status of England’s Progress in Building Atomic Bomb, 1941”
Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 7
24 May 1962 – Report from Malinovskiy and Zakharov on Ministry of Defense proposals to reinforce the Group of Forces in Cuba Top Secret Especially Urgent To the Chairman of the Security Council Comrade N. S. Khrushchev I hereby report: I. On the possibility of sending reinforcements to Cuba via aircraftContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 7”
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