29 August 1949
First Soviet Atomic Test
Directs the scientific programme producing the first Soviet atomic bomb test.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Semipalatinsk in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Directs the scientific programme producing the first Soviet atomic bomb test.
The Soviet Union conducts its first atomic bomb test, ending the United States nuclear monopoly.
The achievement marks rds-1 test as an important Russian scientific milestone.
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.
Contributes to the design tested as the Soviet Union's first thermonuclear device.
The achievement marks soviet thermonuclear device as an important Russian scientific milestone.
The Soviet Union tests RDS-37, its first two-stage thermonuclear weapon design.
Provenance
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