Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

The existence of the 10 secret cities was not revealed until after the

collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992. A good primer on the maintenance

of Soviet nuclear secrecy can be found in Oleg Baukharin, “The Cold

War Atomic Intelligence Game, 1945–70,” Studies in Intelligence48,

no. 2 (1999).

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