M. E. Boltunov, a military journalist, colonel, has remained faithful to his chosen topic for almost two decades - in fact, he has already become a historian of the Russian special services. His next book is dedicated to intelligence officers who “changed the world”: GRU officers who carried out the most important missions outside the borders of the USSR. Top-secret weapons programs of NATO countries, military secrets of the Bundeswehr, American nuclear weapons - the information obtained by GRU officers was so important that it allowed the Soviet Union to impose its own rules of the game on the international arena on its rivals.