On 30 August 1949, one day after the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear bomb, Avetik Ignatyevich Burnazyan, Deputy Minister of Health of the USSR, filed a report to Lavrentiy Beria on preliminary findings from data retrieved on more than 1500 animals purposely exposed to the explosion and radiation. As expected, the reading isContinueContinue reading “Report on Effect of Blast from First Soviet Nuclear Bomb on Animals”
Unpublished Declassified Soviet Archives
Translating History 