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Special Issue: New Light on Early Soviet Bomb Secrets

NOV 01, 1996

DOI: 10.1063/1.881526

David Holloway

Nuclear history has opened up remarkably since the end of the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet nuclear program and the history of the US‐Soviet nuclear arms race can now be studied in quite a new way, thanks to information from Russian archives and from participants in the program itself.

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David Holloway. Stanford University, Stanford, California.

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