CAIRO PAPER'S ACCOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT OF USSR H BOMB

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05718080
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2018-02331
• Publication Date: December 14, 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Military - H Bomb
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Cairo
DATE
PUBLISHED 23 Aug 1953
LANGUAGE French
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SOURCE Le Journal d'Egypte
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1930 - 1953
DATE DIST. /44 Dec 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CAIRO PAPER '3 ACCOUNT
OF DEVELOF=2 OF U5SR H Bola
The 1936 edition of the Soviet encyclopedia contains references to pitch-
blende mines in two provinces of Central Asia which border on Afghanistan, and
information on mines in Sararkand in the Uzbek 5SR and in the Kirgiz SM. This
inforration is missing from later editions.
By order of Nikolay Bukharin2 research on radioactive mines was started in
1930 in Central Asia, principally in the Pamirs- A report published in 1935 in
Leningrad by Professor I. Y. Bachizlov tells of these e:Tlorations and stresses
the importance of the deposit at Tiniya on the northern slope of the Altay
Mountains in Soviet Turkestan, southwest of the city of Osh and 100 kilonnters
from Fedchenko on the Central Asia railroad line gedchenko is on the Tashkent
Railroad SysteM7. The uranium found in this deposit is known as "Tiniya-
Munionite" ft-yuyarramite?7.
In 1946, a Ipecial committee under the Personal leadership of Stalin
established the Sterlitamak research center, directei by the atomic scientist
Kapitsa, and Atomuad I, II, and III in Asia.
Atomgrad I is in the Kuznetsk basin in southern Siberia, and Kapitsa
established his headquarters there. This basin Lay be considered the Lain
Soviet atomic stronghold. Large buildings were constructed, each having an
atom bold) shelter several floors below ground level and each being eql,ipped
with all modern conveniences. Atos;2rad II is a few hundred kilometer:. away
on the banks of the Angara Siver near Lake Baykal. The river is famol..: for th2
force of its current, which would rake it an ideal source of electric power
for atomic plants. Atomgrad III is on the edge of Outer Mongolia.
The entire region of she Atomgrads aas been transformed into an immense
factory and laboratory with hundreds of scientists and thousands of workers.
A large number are Russians, although many are Germane and other foreigners
from the Satellites. Atomic research has been aided by leaks from the US,
which have enabled ;'%e USSR to develop the H Bomb, thus making the two countries
almost equal.
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The USSR atomic bomb would have the following features: an active mass
enclosing the elements destined to react each against the other, such as
hydrogen and lithium, a powerful electromagnet, and an electric genera cor to
furnish the igniting spark. The H borab is cumbersome, but much less expensive
than the atom bomb.
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