"[During the Soviet Union's first nuclear test, two tanks were procured from the army for the purposes of analysing fallout effects.] A.I Burnazian... wanted to remove the turrets and add lead shielding to give the crews greater protection, but the military protested that this would destroy the shilhouette of the tanks. Kurchatov overruled the military, declaring that an atomic test was not a dog show, and that tanks were not poodles to be judged by their appearance and posture"

P 214. Holloway, David. Stalin and the bomb. New Haven: Yale University press (1994).