Exhibition features declassified Soviet A-bomb documents

"Several new documents were declassified for the exhibition related to the construction of the first Soviet atomic bomb, design of closed cities, as well as the "C" department that accumulated information from abroad," Alexei Litvin from the State Archive told Tass.

The documents include authentic reports of the Soviet intelligence about the creation of a super bomb in the United States, as well as reports of the head of the Soviet atomic project Lavrenty Beriya to Joseph Stalin.

US archives provided a confidential memorandum of US President Garry Truman that okayed the use of a nuclear bomb against Japan and pages from his diary of 1945.

Several exhibits are directly linked to the first Soviet nuclear test on August 29, 1949. Some documents disclose unknown details related to the participation of German scientists and GULAG prisoners in the project.

The exhibition will last until September 20, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.