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”
Unpublished Declassified Soviet Archives
Translating History 