Nazi Germany had plans to launch a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union in the summer of 1945, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has stated. According to declassified transcripts of interrogations with Gruppenführer Werner Wächter, published on August 7 by the FSB’s Centre for Public Relations, Berlin had hoped to drop an atomic bomb on the Soviet Union. However, Soviet troops had already stormed and captured Berlin before those plans could come to fruition. Wächter, a high-ranking official in the Third Reich’s Propaganda Ministry and close ally of Joseph Goebbels, was interrogated by…