They also found almost immediately that the American attack aircraft couldn't use Russian bombs and other ordnance.
Sputnik had been the space equivalent of the Russian atomic bomb.
"Mrs. Wilkins, could you set off those Russian bombs while they are still far away?"
There has been concern for years about the vulnerability of Russian bombs and bomb materials.
In fact, uranium that was intended for Russian bombs now meets more than half the needs of American power reactors.
Others were unexploded ordnance, like a 500-pound Russian bomb found in the Zavodskoi district.
He yawned and stretched on the ground in the courtyard of a mud house a Russian bomb had shattered.
Tens of thousands rushed to the border when the Russian bombs began to fall.
It was also in another gorge here that the Russian bombs fell.
For that, much more than Russian nuclear bombs, is today the biggest threat to European security, as it was a century ago.