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    The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop...
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    2022-04-16 Schwartz, Michael. The Russian-A(merican) Bomb: The Role of Espionage in the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project. J. Undergrad. Sci. 3: 103–108 (Summer 1996)...
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    property, and personnel useful to the Soviet atomic bomb project. The exploitation teams were under the Soviet Alsos and they were headed by Lavrentij...
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  • and development as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project.[citation needed] There are several explanations for the Soviet code-name of RDS-1, usually an...
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    nuclear weapons in hostilities. The Soviet Union started development shortly after with their own atomic bomb project, and not long after, both countries...
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    Manhattan Project's emphasis on security, Soviet atomic spies penetrated the program. The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb during...
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    United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246...
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  • second largest detonation by MT Father of All Bombs – largest Russian conventional bomb Soviet atomic bomb project Doomsday device Bendix, Aria (1 September...
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  • and Soviet espionage of the Manhattan Project in the US (known as Project Enormous). Some of the espionage was undertaken to support the Soviet atomic bomb...
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    Russian Alsos (redirect from Soviet Alsos)
    German atomic related facilities, intellectual materials, material resources, and scientific personnel for the benefit of the Soviet atomic bomb project. The...
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  • George Koval (category Manhattan Project people)
    acted as a Soviet intelligence officer for the Soviet atomic bomb project. Koval's infiltration of the Manhattan Project as a GRU (Soviet military intelligence)...
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    military capabilities". Massive Ordnance Penetrator Grand Slam (bomb) Soviet atomic bomb project Tsar Bomba Russian: Авиационная вакуумная бомба повышенной...
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  • missile project: an ICBM control-system Apollo program, which landed humans on the Moon Soviet atomic bomb project Soviet crewed lunar programs Project-706...
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    Abram Alikhanov (category Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union people)
    of the Soviet Union's leading physicists. Before joining the Soviet atomic bomb project, Alikhanov studied X-rays and cosmic rays. Between 1945 and 1968...
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    debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively...
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    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (category American people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union)
    directly used in the Soviet atomic bomb project. According to Julius's contact Feklisov, the Rosenbergs did not provide the Soviet Union with any useful...
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    director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing...
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  • agreed that the reports were nonsensical, the directors of the Soviet atomic bomb project decided to pursue this line of research, which resulted in several...
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    Lanzhou. The atomic bomb was a part of China's "Two Bombs, One Satellite" program. It had a yield of 22 kilotons, comparable to the Soviet Union's first...
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  • physicist, author of a number of textbooks, and collaborator on the Soviet atomic bomb project who lived mainly in Moscow. Kompaneyets was a student of Lev Landau...
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  • RDS-5 (category Bombs)
    The RDS-5 (Russian: РДС-5) was a plutonium based Soviet atomic bomb, probably using a hollow core. Two versions were made. The first version used 2 kg...
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  • RDS-3 (category Nuclear bombs of the Soviet Union)
    was the third atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union in 1951, after the RDS-1 and RDS-2. It was called Marya in the military. The bomb had a composite...
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    Robert Döpel (category German expatriates in the Soviet Union)
    the German nuclear weapon project (Uranprojekt). In 1945, he was sent to Russia to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project. He returned to Germany in...
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    Georgy Flyorov (category Soviet physicists)
    2022. Pondrom, Lee G. (25 July 2018). Soviet Atomic Project, The: How The Soviet Union Obtained The Atomic Bomb. World Scientific. p. 784. ISBN 978-981-323-557-1...
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    believed that all power generators in the future would be atomic in nature. The atomic bomb would render all conventional explosives obsolete, and nuclear...
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    the Manhattan Project. The report was also revealed to the Soviet Union by its atomic spies, and helped start the Soviet atomic bomb project. The neutron...
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  • Oleg Lavrentiev (category Soviet nuclear physicists)
    (2011-02-10)February 10, 2011) was a physicist who worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project and whose research contributions were fundamental to the understanding...
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Atomic bomb)
    fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released...
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    (see also Soviet atomic bomb project). Scientists in the United States from the Manhattan Project had warned that, in time, the Soviet Union would certainly...
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    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 62, no. 4 (July/August 2006), 64–66... Holloway, David (1994). Stalin and the bomb: The Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939–1956...
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