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Soviet Union. Outcome. The successful development of nuclear weapons. Further escalation of the Cold War. 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.
5 giu 2014 · Soviet leaders learned that both the United States and Germany had embarked on efforts to build an atomic bomb. In February 1943, the Soviets began their own program led by nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov and political director Lavrentiy Beria .
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.
The Soviet Union detonating its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, August 29, 1949. (more) In the decade before World War II, Soviet physicists were actively engaged in nuclear and atomic research. By 1939 they had established that, once uranium has been fissioned, each nucleus emits neutrons ...
11 ott 2018 · The Soviet Atomic Project: How the Soviet Union Obtained the Atomic Bomb. A new book by Professor Emeritus Lee Pondrom. The book describes the lives of the people who gave Stalin his weapon — scientists, engineers, managers, and prisoners during the early post war years from 1945–1953.
23 mar 2017 · The first atomic bomb test, known as the Manhattan Project, took place on July 16. Source: AP. The idea that the colossal energy released when the uranium atom was split could be used for...
23 nov 2020 · 1 Citation. Explore all metrics. Abstract— September 28, 2017, marked the 75th anniversary of the issuance of the Resolution of the State Defense Committee (SDC) On Uranium Mining, which laid the foundation for the Atomic Project, one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the Soviet Union.
