LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF SOVIET-GERMAN URANIUM MINING IN THE SOVIET OCCUPATION ZONE OF GERMANY (SBZ) AND THE GDR
Journal: E-Journal VFU
Year: 2025

The Soviet nuclear weapons programme, which was stepped up from 1945, required a lot of uranium. The Soviet Union itself only had a few small deposits in the Central Asian Soviet republics. It was dependent on uranium from countries in its sphere of influence. This included the Soviet Occupied Zone, from which the Soviet Union was to receive its reparations for war damage caused by Germany in accordance with the Potsdam resolutions of the three Allies. The Soviet Occupation Zone had suspected ur