ATOMIC SECRETS OR "TROJAN HORSE" OF THE COLD WAR
The article discloses for the first time the process of drawing the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race in 1945-1955. The author bases his conclusions on the declassified archive documents and states that the process of drawing in was performed by a purposeful «leak» of the USA’s outdated atomic secrets. The process, being conducted with the knowledge of the USA’s political authorities, was aimed at undermining the USSR’s economy and making it become a lagging behind nuclear power. The first Soviet atomic bomb became the exact copy of the American one, which had been used to bomb Nagasaki. But the USA was unsuccessful in its attempts to direct the USSR to the dead lock while developing the H-bomb as the Soviet scientists managed to create their own version of thermonuclear weapons.