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The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.
- Manhattan Project
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- Manhattan Project
Il programma atomico sovietico fu l'insieme dell'attività di ricerca, produzione e verifica sperimentale svolto dall' Unione Sovietica per costruire la bomba atomica.
1947 – January – British Prime Minister Clement Attlee approves the development of an atomic bomb through the High Explosive Research programme led by William Penney, Baron Penney. 1948 – June 19 – The Soviet Union's first plutonium production reactor is activated at Chelyabinsk-40.
The project was ordered by Nikita Khrushchev in July 1961 as part of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing after the Test Ban Moratorium, with the detonation timed to coincide with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Aided by effective intelligence management by Soviet agencies on American Manhattan Project, Kurchatov oversaw the quick development and testing of the first Soviet nuclear weapon, which was roughly based on the first American device, at Semipalatinsk in the Kazakh SSR in 1949.
