Journalists Have Gained Access To Secret Plans For Russian Nuclear Military Bases

The documents reveal the internal layout of the bases in great detail.

Plans for secret Russian nuclear facilities were openly published in Russian tender documents and collected by researchers. This is stated in a joint article by the Danish investigative publication Danwatch and the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The article is retold by Radio Liberty.

The journalists managed to analyze more than two million tender documents and found among them hundreds of plans for the base of the Strategic Missile Forces in the town of Yasny in the Orenburg region. The documents reveal the internal layout of the bases in minute detail, including the location of weapons lockers and underground tunnels connecting rooms. They describe where soldiers eat, sleep and go to the toilet. The tenders tell where they rest and what training equipment the military uses.

From 2020, the military's tender documents must not be posted in the public domain. However, they continue to be posted online, the investigation said. Commenting on the material, a former British military intelligence officer calls the leak "a serious failure of procedures." He said the documents potentially leave military bases vulnerable to external attacks.

Moscow uses a total of 11 sites across the country to store nuclear weapons, according to the Danwatch piece. Russia has expanded and modernized most of them over the past decade. From the outside, they are protected by complex electronic monitoring systems, with remote-controlled machine guns and grenade launchers, modern air defense equipment.

But the internal plans of such facilities have always been a closely guarded secret - Western experts had the layout of such bases only from the 60s - 70s. Now journalists have published as an example a plan of one of the floors of such a base.

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