Western term for Soviet harvesting of Nazi German nuclear assets, 1945-1946
Not to be confused with Alsos Mission.
German scientists repatriated from Sukhumi in February 1958
The Soviet Alsos or Russian Alsos is the western codename for an operation that took place during 1945–1946 in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, in order to exploit German atomic related facilities, intellectual materials, material resources, and scientific personnel for the benefit of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
The contributions of the German scientists is borne out by the many USSR State Prizes and other awards given in the wake of the second Soviet atomic bomb test, a uranium-based atomic bomb; awards for uranium production and isotope separation were prevalent. Also significant in both the first Soviet atomic bomb test – a plutonium-based atomic bomb which required a uranium reactor for plutonium generation – and the second test, was the Soviet acquisition of a significant amount of uranium immediately before and shortly after the close of World War II. This saved the Soviets at least a year by their own admission.[1]
^Drovennikov, I.S.; Romanov, S.V (1998). "Tropheiny uran or istorija odnoi komandirovki" (PDF). Istorija sovjetskogo atomnogo projecta. Documenty Vospominanija Issledovanij (1): 226.
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