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...antiquated SS-4 and SS-5, which nevertheless remain deployed and are under negotiation in Geneva. The Soviets have deployed some 340 SS-20s in the past six years-a rate of more than one a week-scattered over 38 sites. Two-thirds are west of the Ural Mountains, pointing westward with at most a 20-min. flight to West Germany. Sums up a Bonn defense official: "There is no Soviet weapons system in its class that comes close to matching the SS-20." A compatriot in the Foreign Ministry agrees. "The SS-20," he says, "is a unique threat...
Even if the U.S. missiles hit their targets accurately, an American "counterforce strike" directed solely against Soviet ICBM silos would nonetheless mean raining down some 2,000 warheads from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other, including the most heavily populated and industrialized areas west of the Ural Mountains. It is doubtful that the Soviets would consider such a strike, which would leave from 4 million to 30 million dead, as a "limited" action requiring a "limited" response. In fact, Brezhnev has repeatedly warned that any use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. would lead to a no-holds...
...April 1979 Soviet citizens on the outskirts of Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains developed fevers and respiratory problems. Hundreds died. The Soviet Union identified the epidemic as intestinal anthrax, a bacterial disease spread to human beings by infected livestock...
...experts, was deciding to accelerate production by employing a technique known as water injection, whereby water is forced into wells to make the crude petroleum easier to pump. Result: more oil in the short run, but less in the long term. Some older wells in the Volga-Ural region now pump five barrels of water for every barrel of oil; and the average Soviet well pumps 50% water...
...midnight on July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...