He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled to the tower. The blast was scheduled for 6 am.

In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement. Video by Adrian Hartrick and Dominika Ozynska Follow BBC ...

Another 66 former Soviet military and KGB officials were given ... The assault by security forces on a TV tower in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on 13 January 1991 left 14 civilians dead and ...