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Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Soviet Union. Communist Party. Central Committee (CPSU CC). Politburo

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Ukrainian Nuclear History

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

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North America

United States

Ukrainian Motherland Monument, Kyiv

Eastern Europe

Ukraine

The Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations meets on June 14, 1946.

Baruch Plan for International Control of Atomic Energy

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East Asia

China

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Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

1890- 1986

Sino-Soviet Relations

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Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

Chernobyl nuclear accident

Ukraine

Chernobyl

Nuclear Proliferation

Nikita Khrushchev at the UNGA, 1962.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich

1894- 1971

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Kurchatov, Igor V.

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East Asia

North Korea

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Soviet Union. Council of Ministers

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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.
April 15, 1963	Conversation between Soviet Ambassador in North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and Czechoslovak Ambassador Moravec A North Korean colonel suggests that the Soviet Union should give advanced military technology to North Korea.
September 29, 1946	Letter from Igor V. Kurchatov to Lavrenti Beria requesting additional support for the project on buiding an atomic bomb. Igor Kurchatov, the scientific director of the Soviet nuclear project writes secret police chief Lavrenti Beria, whom Stalin had given principal responsibility for the atomic effort, asking for additional resources to solve uranium shortages faced by the project. (excerpts)
January 25, 1946	Notes on the discussion between I.V. Kurchatov, lead scientist for the Soviet nuclear effort, and Stalin Kurchatov's notes on his meeting with Stalin, Molotov and Beria. Stalin promises the all necessary help to the soviet effort to build an atomic bomb. He suggests that the project should be build on "a Russian scale," without concerns for cost saving.
November 14, 1979	Letter by the Chairman of the SPD, Brandt, to the General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU, Brezhnev Willy Brandt writes to Leonid Brezhnev about SALT II and tensions between the U.S. and USSR over missile placement in Europe. Brandt ask to start a dialog for exchange of ideas and to found a common ground for international development, involving Russians.
October 1983	Evolution of the deployment of Soviet intermediate missiles An exhaustive memo on the deployment of the Soviet Intermediate Nuclear Forces from 1977 to 1983.
November 12, 1983	Memorandum on INF and START negotiations This memo to Prime Minister Bettino Craxi argues against the merging of the INF and START negotiations proposed by the Finnish government and backed by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. The memo suggests that the proposal could jeopardize the Geneva talks and harm European interests.