The death of a nuclear physicist was the result of suicide. He left a suicide note next to the body.
One of the creators of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb RDS-37 Grigory Klinishov was found dead in Moscow. The Russian propaganda agency TASS, citing the emergency services, writes that the scientist committed suicide.
“Grigory Klinishov was found dead in an apartment on Kosmodamianskaya embankment. The nuclear physicist died by suicide. He left a suicide note next to the body. In it, the man said goodbye to his relatives son,” the source said.
Klinishov was born in 1930. He was a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, a winner of the Lenin Prize in 1962. Klinishov also developed several types of thermonuclear charges for future generations of bombs. The RDS-37 test took place in November 1955 at the Semipalatinsk test site, the bomb was dropped by a Tu-16 bomber.
The date of the scientist’s death was not indicated in the news, but according to the data provided in Wikipedia, it happened on June 17th.
It was previously reported that the Russians were advised to blow themselves up with a grenade to avoid capture.
Source: korrespondent
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