Wendover is roughly 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a border town. Wendover is technically cut in half. Wendover, Utah and West Wendover Nevada. West Wendover, Nevada boasts a handful of Casino's, which are the tent poles of the communities economy. Wendover, Utah is also home to the Wendover Airfield. Formerly, the Wendover Air Force Base. Nicknamed, "Kingman", established in 1941, the base would be eventually selected by The Manhattan Project to be the test site for the 509th composite group. The group that would eventually fly the Enola Gay and Bockscar over Japan, dropping the bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before those bombs would go on to change history, their predecessors, known as "test shapes", or "pumpkin bombs", were tested on the desolate terrains just outside Wendover before they were unleashed on the people of Japan.
In 1987 the United States entered in the INF Treaty with the Soviet Union. The INF Treaty or Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, was a bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate certain classes of nuclear weapons and promote transparency between the nations as they looked towards an alliance. 30- 40 Russians were sent to Magna, UT to participate in the the program at the Hercules Plant where many of the missiles were created.
In 2019, the United States withdrew from the INF Treaty under the belief Russia had violated the terms of the agreement.
Below, is an untouched living and working quarters of the Russians that moved to Utah. It has remained untouched since the 1980's.
