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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • on YouTube in August 2020. Father of All Bombs – largest Russian conventional bomb Soviet atomic bomb project Doomsday device Sundial (weapon) Bendix,...
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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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  • of 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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  • Moon Soviet atomic bomb project Soviet crewed lunar programs Project-706 Great Pyramid of Giza SDGs Wikiquote has quotations related to Project. Megaproject...
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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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    Isaak Kikoin (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
    Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute, which developed the first Soviet nuclear reactor in 1946. This was the lead-in to the Soviet atomic bomb project with the...
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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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    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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    military capabilities". Massive Ordnance Penetrator Grand Slam (bomb) Soviet atomic bomb project Tsar Bomba Russian: Авиационная вакуумная бомба повышенной...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    link‍] On this incident, see David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994):...
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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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  • refer to one of the following. Igor Kurchatov, the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project Cities named after Igor Kurchatov Kurchatov, Kazakhstan Kurchatov...
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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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  • Karl Zimmer (category German expatriates in the Soviet Union)
    headed by Heinz Pose, was also a sharashka and working on the Soviet atomic bomb project. Other notable Germans at the facility were Werner Czulius, Hans...
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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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    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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    Igor Kurchatov (category Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union)
    nuclear weapons, and has been referred to as "father of the Russian atomic bomb". As many of his contemporaries in Russia, Kurchatov, initially educated...
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