Version: in 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the USSR

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On September 11, 1992, the official newspaper of the Russian Government, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published an article with an interesting interview. I quote this article in full:

“Four months before the USSR entered the war with Japan, the Americans dropped a prototype of a small (possibly atomic) bomb in the remote Yakut taiga. But it did not explode and fell into the hands of our specialists.

This is the opinion of a witness of that event, a veteran of the Second World War, a former technical lieutenant Vasily Ivanovich Slomnyuk, who now lives in Krasnoyarsk. During the war, he served the Alaska-Siberia air route and participated in the ferrying of American combat aircraft supplied under Lend-Lease along it. But he also had to fight at the front: he was awarded three orders of the Patriotic War, medals, and was seriously wounded. Now he is over 70, but he is vigorous and cheerful.

- Vasily Ivanovich, when was this?

Vasily Slomnyuk: In April '45. American planes flew freely over our territory through Chukotka and Yakutia all the way to Khabarovsk. Mostly transport ones, but there were also bombers. And so, in the taiga, about twenty kilometers from Verkhnevilyuisk, hunters found this bomb. Hanging from a parachute, caught on a pine tree... At first they didn’t tell anyone, but then they quarreled among themselves, and one went to “snitch” on his friends: they were, they say, withholding important government information. Here the NKVD, of course, took them all by the seat of their pants... They showed them a bomb. They took a picture of it, but they didn’t take it off the pine tree; they started looking for a specialist. That's when they noticed me - a new person, recently from the front, very familiar with aerial bombs. They checked for a long time: they asked about my relatives, asked to tell me how things were at the front.

- Apart from you, there were no specialists there?

Vasily Slomnyuk: No, only I went to the bomb. And with me is an NKVD colonel. Or rather, I’m with him... We flew from Yakutsk to Verkhnevilyuysk with a transfer on Douglas and Po-2 planes. Then on horseback with guides and on foot through the taiga.

As soon as I saw her, I immediately understood: something unusual. There is a kind of structure hanging on a parachute. The parachute is made of paper, but the paper is such that it does not fall apart due to dampness, but stretches like rubber. The bomb itself is small, only about twelve kilograms, attached to the fittings by a belt that hugs it around the center of gravity, making the body of the bomb horizontal. There is a screw in the front part. The entire structure is mounted on a special cross. There are also aneroids, an electric relay, and an alkaline battery the size of a matchbox. It was lined with sawdust and surrounded by air chambers to retain heat.

This entire system is entangled with a fuse cord and equipped with thermite checkers. Apparently, in order to burn it along with the paper parachute - not to leave any traces after the bomb unfastens and goes into free fall.

- That is, at a certain height the “gift” should have come unhooked?

Vasily Slomnyuk: Yes, the aneroids, reacting to the change in pressure, close the electrical circuit. Immediately the electric relay is activated, the carbine is unfastened, and the bomb falls. Since she is flying "head" down, the spinning propeller should have put her on alert. Ground, impact, explosion. Possibly atomic.

- Why do you think so?

Vasily Slomnyuk: Because when they reported the bomb to Moscow and described it, there was a slight panic there. It was strictly forbidden to take her to the capital. It was ordered to store our find at a temperature of plus or minus two degrees and wait for the arrival of specialists. The three of them appeared on the third day. The same NKVD colonel told me all this. And he secretly said that these people were nuclear scientists.

- But this is indirect evidence, so to speak.

Vasily Slomnyuk: What can you say about the fact that for study the bomb was taken on reindeer sleds further into the taiga? And why was the parachute needed? Obviously, so that the plane has time to fly to a safe distance. Why burn the parachute? Is it not to destroy all traces?

- Why did you decide that the bomb was American?

Vasily Slomnyuk: There were no inscriptions on it, only numbers from 0 to 9, but the threads on all the bolts and cogs were inch size, that is, typically American.

“The bomb didn’t come off in time and floated by parachute all the way to the ground.” Why do you think?

Vasily Slomnyuk: It was very cold, and the alkaline battery apparently froze. As a result, the mechanism did not work because there was no energy.

- In your opinion, it turns out that the Americans, before bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, tried to secretly test a smaller model of an atomic bomb in the taiga near Verkhnevilyuysk?

Vasily Slomnyuk: I do not exclude this possibility. At least that says a lot."

Continued below...

“- All these years, you probably haven’t left the desire to find out something or at least share your “terrible secret” with someone?..

Vasily Slomnyuk: There was such a desire, but in general I kept quiet. Several years ago, however, I wrote to retired Lieutenant General Mark Ivanovich Shevelev (now deceased), who was the head of the ferry line at the end of the war. What the hell did I bring to Yakutsk in '45? But I didn’t receive an answer.

This concluded our conversation.

Vasily Ivanovich with a group of track veterans was supposed to fly to the USA on July 6 for the second meeting with American veterans. But on June 23, his foreign passport was returned from Moscow by mail and he was notified in writing that, “unfortunately,” he was late in obtaining a visa and, in general, the entire trip was “in question.” However, having called the War Veterans Committee, the secretary of the Al-Sib section, E. A. Makarova, Vasily Ivanovich found out that the trip would take place (and took place) on July 6, but it would not be veterans who would fly, but some, most likely Moscow, generals and Heroes Soviet Union. It is interesting that there were only two Heroes on the route, and three generals, two of whom had already died.

Perhaps this is not just a matter of the desire of young and agile generals to fly overseas to visit a long-term strategic enemy who was once an ally. It is possible that certain “state interests” related to the history of the small “Yakut” bomb also had an impact.

Having decided to publish the story of V.I. Slomnyuk, a veteran of the ferry route, the author of the article and I proceeded from the fact that this was only a version. Whether the “Yakut” bomb was atomic or not, it was there, and this in itself is an interesting fact that deserves attention.

In the issue of May 9 of this year, RG published an article by Yuri Stoma about the ferry route “Project Al-Sib”. It says that from Alaska, American combat aircraft did not fly to us along the route empty, but were carrying various strategic materials, including cadmium, cobalt, URANIUM (emphasis mine - V. Ya.). Why uranium? The article also reports: a certain American author, already in the post-war period, argued that it was through the Siberian air bridge that the Russians took from America the secret of producing an atomic bomb. Not Yakut Is this the case that the American author had in mind?

In the history of Soviet-American allied relations there were “warmings” and “coolings”, improvements and complications. There are still a lot of “white spots” in it. This also applies to the Alaska-Siberia ferry route, which turns half a century old in September. The time has come to “reveal” these “blind spots”.

The editors ask everyone who knows anything about the strange event of April 1945 in the taiga near Verkhnevilyuysk to respond."

It seems to me that this simply was not possible. First of all, the weight of this bomb is too small. Secondly, what was it for?

What do you think?

Thank you.

Considering a Russia dropped the Tsar, it wouldn't suprise me one iota.

Based on my memory only here, I do recall the entire delegation working on the bomb wanted Russia to have the tech for the purpose of balance of power. Seemed treasonous to me as an American but as a Scientist I see their point. They KNEW the west was compromised with the "cabal" as I prefer to call this evil.


It is evil, this thing we all seem to taste as foul bane like in the Lord of the Rings. I sense even you RussianTroll are fighting this evil from where you are. I am sure we cannot trust each other so I will just share what I know and hope it helps you realize most citizens of this great land respect others unlike what you may believe or the media spin tells you.

a reply to: RussianTroll

Great story.
But, if true, this device certainly doesn't even sound remotely nuclear in nature.
Sounds conventional...and the test was likely more about the delivery system, rather than the payload.

How exactly does one drop a bomb that did not get invented until years later? Time travel?

The knowledge of making an atomic bomb at that time, before Russia entered WWII, did not exist. They did not even have the atomic material to try.

originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
How exactly does one drop a bomb that did not get invented until years later? Time travel?

The knowledge of making an atomic bomb at that time, before Russia entered WWII, did not exist. They did not even have the atomic material to try.

The German Scientist claimed in historical documents to be days away from having theirs during WWII and you don't get there in a day or two in that field of science.

Frozen in a tree for how long????

>The Tunguska event !<
The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga
flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an
area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest.

? 30 June 1908 ?
But what if they Changed the date so no one could guess the truth?
a explosion that big around the time they made the nuclear bomb.

people wound have put the pieces together!
it would be obvious it was a nuclear bomb.
and that some one had it long before we wear told.

it would have been 15 megatons of TNT—a thousand times
more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.

We all know they Keep a lot of secreats!

This sounds much more like something Japan built and It may have been a chemical weapon of some sort.

people say the US tec is about 40 year more Advanced what we know.
what if it is a Lot more? like 80 years.

Nikola Tesla did his best work around this time.
I dont think he was the only one.

What did they find IN the pyramids?
Um! it was Napoleon Bonaparte who first rob'd the pyramids.
June 1, 1798
I wounder if england went to war with them to steal the tec from them?

"The British military occupied Egypt in 1882 to
protect financial interests in the country"
TEC info.

Shut up this IS a conspiracy site!!!!!!!!!!!!!

originally posted by: bluemooone44
This sounds much more like something Japan built and It may have been a chemical weapon of some sort.

You beat me to the punch. Specifically, this sounds like one of their Fugo balloon bombs. The balloon envelopes were constructed of paper and many of the bombs were incendiary to start forest fires (since they couldn't really control where they came down very accurately). The incendiary bombs were about the size described--they couldn't be much bigger or the balloon couldn't lift them. Although Japan had introduced use of the metric system in the late 1920s, they were also using inch system measurements and fasteners through WWII and after.

originally posted by: bluemooone44
This sounds much more like something Japan built and It may have been a chemical weapon of some sort.

Good one, I was thinking that at first.
but why test some thing like that in the Most desolate place on earth?
what could its target be?
they hate China so why not test it on them?

I agree wi Boomer1947. the Japanese incendiary balloons had (aneroid?) devices to maintain altitude, and thermal equipment to start the fires. the balloons were made from special paper.
glad no one was hurt. one of the Japanese bombs did kill someone that found it.

a reply to: RussianTroll

“Four months before the USSR entered the war with Japan, the Americans dropped a prototype of a small (possibly atomic) bomb in the remote Yakut taiga. But it did not explode and fell into the hands of our specialists."


Sorry Comrade, but that Never Happened . " Little Boy " and " Fat Man " were the ONLY Atomic Bombs Created by the U.S. in 1945 Except for the one Tested in the Nevada Desert . Nice Try at Revisionist History there though . The Soviets Eventually received Top Secret Material concerning Atomic Bomb Secrets from Numerous Sources including John Cairncross , Klaus Fuchs , Theodore Hall , Harry Gold , David Greenglass , Lona Cohen , and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg . From that Information the Soviet Union eventually Detonated its First Atomic Bomb in August 1949 .

It was so the ignorant Russian scientist could catch up with the Americans! Having researched the United States ability to continue to march into Moscow and defeat the Ruskies was found to be untenable! It was found to be easier to enter the cold war and begin a campaign to dissolve and dismember the USSR so that the states that were no longer unified could get away from communism and the Head of the Russian Serpent!

No use having the power if you do not have an enemy to wield it against and distract your country and control your own with!

originally posted by: Therealbeverage
It was so the ignorant Russian scientist could catch up with the Americans! Having researched the United States ability to continue to march into Moscow and defeat the Ruskies was found to be untenable! It was found to be easier to enter the cold war and begin a campaign to dissolve and dismember the USSR so that the states that were no longer unified could get away from communism and the Head of the Russian Serpent!

No use having the power if you do not have an enemy to wield it against and distract your country and control your own with!

Hmm.. General George S. Patton would Disagree............

You're loosely describing a Japanese incendiary balloon.

a reply to: Zanti Misfit

Little Boy " and " Fat Man " were the ONLY Atomic Bombs Created by the U.S.

They weren't created by The U.S.

They were created IN The U.S.

a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3

The alkaline battery technology was from about 1899 by a Swedish engineer Waldemar Jungner and that was before the Tunguska explosion. Could be some kind of nuclear proliferation drone, you get a lot of that with Tunguska.

US Defense department did take an interest in the Silver-Cadmium technology for space applications in the early 1960's.

apps.dtic.mil...

originally posted by: RussianTroll The entire structure is mounted on a special cross.

The balloon bombs had a circular frame with an X-shaped support in the middle.

Two are known to have returned to Japan. One at least is known to have landed in far eastern Russia near the Bering strait.

It is possible it could have been a different weapon similar but not identical to a Fusen Bakudan incendiary.