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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


Karabash
N 55°24' E 60°13'

The Karabash national-level nuclear weapons storage facility is west of the Chelyabinsk-65 plutonium production complex and according to Corona Mission 1117-2 of 31 May 1972 may be rather large storage complex on the order of Nizhnyaya Tura or Yuryuzan.


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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