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February 2, 1956

Note Containing an Assessment of the Parameters of a Device with Yields of 150 Megatons and One Billion Tons of TNT

A report on the material requirements and design specifications of nuclear devices with yields of 150MT and one milliard tons TNT between Soviet officials. Specifically, the use of lithium-6 deuteride and natural uranium in varying degrees is discussed.

March 1, 1955

Pravda Newspaper Article on the Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Concerning the USSR CM [Council of Ministers]

Pravda announces the decisions made by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

November 20, 1962

Telegram from TROSTNIK (Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky) to PAVLOV (General Isa Pliev)

Malinovsky orders Pliev to load all tactical nuclear weapons on the ship “Atkarsk” and return them to the Soviet Union

October 27, 1962

Telegram from TROSTNIK (Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky) to PAVLOV (General Isa Pliev)

Malinovsky prohibits the use of nuclear weapons without instructions from Moscow.

June 21, 1946

Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, No. 1286-525, On Development of Soviet Atomic Weapons

Resolution outlining the work of the newly established Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11). Atomic bombs are referred to in the resolution as “jet engines S,” in two versions, S-1 and S-2 (abbreviated as RDS-1 and RDS-2). RDS-1 meant the analog of the first U.S. plutonium-239 implosion type atomic bomb tested on 16 July 1945 in New Mexico RDS-2 signified the analog of the uranium-235 gun type bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

April 9, 1946

Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, Establishing Design Bureau No. 11

Resolution establishing Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11), which was the Soviet analog of the secret wartime American nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

April 2, 1946

Protocol No. 18 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Excerpt)

Special dossier containing a resolution to send a Soviet geological prospecting party to survey North Korea for beryllium.

April 25, 1947

Protocol No. 36 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Excerpt)

Special dossier refining aspects of the geological prospecting party to North Korea, to extract "rare elements".

April 12, 1948

Protocol No. 61 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Excerpt)

Memorandum of the Special Committee of the CC CPSU postponing the geological prospecting for uranium in North Korea.

August 3, 1958

Fourth Conversation between N.S. Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, Hall of Qinjendiang [Beijing]

Mao and Khrushchev discuss the building of American bases around the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons testing and President Eisenhower.