MOSCOW - Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler planned to use an atomic bomb against the Soviet Union in June 1945, according to archival documents released by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday, reported Sputnik.
The FSB has declassified and released photos of archival documents in the case of former senior Nazi official Werner Waechter, which contain information about the development and the possible use of the atomic bomb by Nazi Germany.
Waechter said that he had no precise data that atomic bombs would be used at any point in the war against the Soviet Union, but some indications had given him "reason to believe in the possible use of the atomic bomb in a war against the Soviet Union in the summer of 1945".
Nazi Germany planned to use V-2s, the world's first long-range ballistic missiles, to launch nuclear strikes on the Soviet Union's military construction centres in the Urals and industrial facilities in Central Asia, the documents revealed.
German scientists discovered the nuclear fission of uranium atoms in the late 1930s, contributing greatly to the foundations of atomic physics. Nazi Germany was the first country to launch its own atomic bomb project. - BERNAMA-SPUTNIK