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Giulietta

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Giulietta is a 30 year old woman from Helsinki, Finland

"Read in order to live" (Gustave Flaubert) -- I want to learn something new every day, and most of all, understand what I already know even better. Life is full of mysteries, and the biggest of them all is myself.

  • The Nuclear Weapon Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons

    Rated Sep 25 2005 • 30 reviews • nuclear • nuclearweaponarchive.org


    Photo showing Soviet Union first nuclear test on August 29, 1949.
    The test was code named "First Lightning", and detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. The code designation RDS was actually arbitrary and meaningless, but various people on the project gave it a variety of interpretations, one popular one was "Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina" (Stalin's Rocket Engine), another was "Russia Does It Alone". The whole focus of the Soviet program at this point was to set off a Soviet atomic blast at the earliest possible time whatever the cost. At Beria's insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design."

    "The Soviet Union became the second nation in the world to detonate a nuclear device(the U.S. had previously exploded eight devices). Between that date, and 24 October 1990 (the date of the last Soviet, or Russian, test) the Soviet Union conducted 715 nuclear tests, by official count."