SOVIET ATOMIC INSTALLATIONS IDENTIFIED

• Document Type: FOIA
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-02331
• Publication Date: January 28, 1952

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USSR; US
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DATE OF
INFORMATION .1951
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Military; Political
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOVIET ATOMIC INSTALLATIONS IDENTIFIED
The USSR is continuing its atomic preparations under a centralized technical
command, while the manufacture of the constituent elements is scattered acrossa
wide territory. It has been possible to identify atomic factories in the
Kuznetsk Basin, at Magnitogorsk, in the Kara Tau mountains, east of the Caspian
Sea, and even in the heart of the frozen forests of the Siberian Taiga, in a con-
siderable l'ut unidentified center established about 103 or 104 E. 65 nr 66 N.
"Atamgrad So 1," the firs+ Soviet atomic bomb factory, has been located in caverns
dug in the crater of the extinct volcano Aragats (Alagez) in the Caucasus. Bomb
.eserves are stored in deep, vast underground shelters constructed in the Kuznetsk
region, which appears to be one of the principal special arsenals of the Red Army.
In addition to rockets and other self-propelled machines on which the
Soviets are experimenting every day, without, however, being able to overtake
the Americans, it would seen that the Supreme Command of the Kremlin is prepared
to deliver atomic bombs by tvo types of completely new and ultrasecret jet planes
made in distant factories in the Urals, under the direction of the celebrated
expert,General Savitskiy. One of these is fest enough to cr..as the finest net
of fighters, radar, or the best antiaircraft defense.
Furthermore, there are excellent reasons to think seriously of the theory
of a "polar war" between the USSR and the US over the Arctic ice, when one ex-
amines in detail information on the considerably accelerated preparations the
Soviets are making in the entire northern section of the USSR, and the American-
Soviet aerial incident of 7 November.
. Nevertheless, the West has good reason for hopes of reaching a settlement
with the East. Indeed, the strategic and diplomatic situatim between the USSR
and the Western Powers has undergone an almost complete reversal in the past
few months for the following reasons:
1. The recent and spectacular series of atomic explosions in the US will
have been noted. We remember that the US Department of State arranged that cer-
tain information concerning these explosions, nomirally secret, should reach
the Soviets.
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2. The admission of Turkey to NATO constitutes a major change in the pol-
icy of the West, making easier the rapid entry of Western ships and planes into
the Black Sea. Moreover, for this reason the USSR can less and less tolerate
in Yugoslavia a government establishing frieadly relations with the West. This
'aiticude thwarts the Soviet plans of counterattacking the Dardanelles via
Rnmanil Jrld Bulgaria. '
. 3. ;There are indications leading us to believe thrt there is a stock of
atomic bombs at the US naval base at Port Lyautey, loaned by France on the
coast of Morocco. This port, base of the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean,
has grown very rapidly. Small atomic bombs could easily be delivered from this
base to the fleet, whose 60 ships include the carriers Roosevelt, Leyte, and
Siboney, Vase cruisers, two submarines, two destroyers, and 30 supporting ships.
In addition, the US fleet announced 2 months ago that crews were specially trained
to participate in atomic attacks launched from carriers.
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