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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


Golovchino
N 50°34' E 35°45'

The Golovchino national-level nuclear weapons storage facility is southwest of Voronezh, only several miles from the Ukrainian border. Corona Missions 1114-2 of 1 April 1971 and 1109-1 of 10 March 1970 indicate it contained 4-6 storage bunkers spread around a circular access road which winds through a ravined area.


Sources and Methods

  • Thomas Cochrane, William Arkin, Robert Norris and Jeffrey Sands, Soviet Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapons Databook Volume IV, Natural Resources Defense Council [New York, Harper & Row, 1989].
  • Thomas Cochrane, Robert Norris and Oleg Bukharin, Making the Bomb - From Stalin to Yeltsin [Boulder, Westview Press, 1995]



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