I daresay there are hair-raising tales to be told from behind the Iron Curtain - lots more than from the West given Russia's less than careful approach to such things.
Not necessarily so. Whilst there may have been incidents in the manufacturing and storage process (
we had our own after all) the Soviet military appear to have had an effective security and control system wrt their nuclear stores. Their philosophy appears to have been to restrict access (physical and operational) to the absolute minimum and entrust the handling and security of weapons to specially trained units. Neither have I read of any instances; other than weapons tests; when they flew with warshot weapons. I should be very interested if any one is able to refute this?
I feel that they probably approached their tasks with the same degree of commitment and professionalism as we did.
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