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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German nuclear program during World War II (redirect from German atomic bomb project)
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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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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RDS-1 (redirect from First successful Russian test of an atomic bomb)
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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History of nuclear weapons (redirect from Atomic bomb project)
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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1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people...
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Tsar Bomba (redirect from Russian monster bomb)
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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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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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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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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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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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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J. Robert Oppenheimer (redirect from Father of the atomic bomb)
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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military capabilities". Massive Ordnance Penetrator Grand Slam (bomb) Soviet atomic bomb project Tsar Bomba Russian: Авиационная вакуумная бомба повышенной...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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MAUD Committee (section Soviet Union)
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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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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1966. On October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in Lop Nur (code-name "Project 596"), making China the fifth country 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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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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Lavrentiy Beria (category Members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union executed by the Soviet Union)
From 1945, he personally oversaw the Soviet atomic bomb project, which Stalin gave absolute priority to; the project was completed in 1949. After the war...
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Operation Gold (category Soviet Union–United Kingdom military relations)
any time, having already detonated a hydrogen bomb in August 1953 as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Construction of the tunnel began in September...
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Fat Man (redirect from Nagasaki nuclear bomb)
Spilled Atomic Bomb Secrets". Smithsonian. Retrieved 5 April 2019. Holloway, David (1993). "Soviet Scientists Speak Out". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
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Theodore Hall (category Manhattan Project people)
physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United States efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World...
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