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Sarov (Russian: Саро́в) is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Gorkiy-130 (Горький-130) and Arzamas-16 ( Арзама́с-16 ), after a (somewhat) nearby town of Arzamas , [ 7 ] from 1946 to 1991.
- Back When US-Russian Relations Were Thawing
- Lab-To-Lab Collaboration
- Personal Connections
During the time of my trip, relations between Russia and the US were warming, but now they're cooling once again. That troubles Hecker -- even though he spent much of his career designing the nuclear weapons the US aimed at the then-USSR. It troubles me, as well. I grew up during the Cold War, and I'm not eager to introduce my children to concepts ...
My trip was an outgrowth of the US-Russia nuclear collaboration undertaken by Hecker and his colleagues after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The effort, funded by the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, saw US and Russian scientists working on joint research and helping to get a grip on the vast quantities of Soviet-era nuclear weap...
I feel a more personal connection to Russia myself, too. In 1995, I met Boris Nemtsov, a reform-minded politician who then led the nearby Nizhny Novgorod (named Gorky in the Soviet era) region and earned a Ph.D. in physics. Among his policies was a "meter by meter" privatization push that let people gradually buy their apartments from the state. Th...
Feb 10, 2013 · The city of Sarov, surrounded by a thick forest, is one of the most secretive places in the former Soviet Union – the birthplace of its atomic bomb and still a center of the Russian nuclear...
Last Thursday, five nuclear specialists employed by Rosatom, Russia's state atomic energy corporation, were killed in a blast at a military test site in northern Russia, not far from the port of ...
The nuclear research city of Sarov has been closed to outsiders since the 1940s. What is it like to live in a city with no future of opening up?
Sarov is located in Nizhny Novgorod Region, 370 km east of Moscow. Just under 100,000 people live in it and its population is strictly limited. It has been a closed town for many years and even...
Mar 10, 2023 · In the closed town of Sarov, roughly 350 kilometers east of Moscow, scientists are busy working on a project to help keep Russia’s nuclear weapons operational long into the future.
