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The first Soviet nuclear test, code named "First Lightning", detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. At Beria's insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design. 29 August 1949 Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan.

The first Soviet nuclear test, code named "First Lightning", detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. At Beria's insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design. 29 August 1949 Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan.
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The first Soviet nuclear test, code named "First Lightning", detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. At Beria's insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design. 29 August 1949 Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan
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6200 x 4570 px | 81.1 MB
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52.5 x 38.7 cm | 20.7 x 15.2 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1949 • 29 • AUGUST • BERIA • BOMB • BOMBS • CODE • COLD WAR • COPY • DESIGN • DETONATED • DEVICE • EXACT • FIRST • GADGET / FAT • INSISTENCE • KAZAKHSTAN • LIGHTNING BOLT • LIGHTNING • MAN • MEN • NAMED • NUCLEAR • PLUTONIUM • RAY • RAYS • RDS-1 • SEMIPALATINSK • SIEGE • SITE • SOVIET • STORM • TEST • THUNDER • THUNDERSTORM • US • WEATHER: LIGHTNING