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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... more
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Rated by Almer on Sep 28 2006, 11:53am
From the page: "The Nuclear Weapon Archive A Guide to Nuclear Weapons"
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Rated by geojim56 on Aug 19 2006, 12:32pm
From the page: "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. -- Hans A. Bethe" Fascinating (and disturbing) site covering nuclear weapons.
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Reviewed by BuRaKyILdIz on May 05 2006, 5:37pm
u can see the countries, who has got nuclear weapons
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Rated by uknugget on Nov 24 2005, 7:53am
information dubious on nuclear states (Iraq & S.Africa? - come on!). Layout horrid.
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Rated by Giulietta on Sep 25 2005, 2:46am
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."
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Rated by TannerSU on Aug 26 2005, 6:46pm
Very good information..