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First Lightning
The RDS-1 (russian: РДС-1), also known as Izdeliye 501 (device 501) and First Lightning (), was the nuclear bomb used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m., at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh SSR, after top-secret research and development as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Description The weapon was designed at the Kurchatov Institute, then at the time officially known as "Laboratory № 2" but designated as the "office" or "base" in internal documents, starting in April 1946. Plutonium for the bomb was produced at the industrial complex Mayak, Chelyabinsk-40. The RDS-1 nuclear weapon yield, explosive yield was 22 kilotons TNT equivalent, similar to the US Trinity (nuclear test)#The Gadget, Gadget and Fat Man bombs. At Lavrentiy Beria's insistence, the RDS-1 bomb was designed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casing For The First Soviet Atomic Bomb, RDS-1
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