Ussr Nuclear Weapons

USSR / former USSR and Nuclear Weapons

I.Intro
A.Who started program and why
i.Yakov Zeldovich and Yuli Khariton: publish series of paper laing groundwork for Soviet nuclear weapons development (1939-41)
ii.Begin during WWII (1943) on a lower floor physicist Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov
iii.Program begin by reports collected by Soviet intelligence about humanshattan Project (US) > mostly intelligence operation, until give notice of war (highly successful b/c sympathy for war clipping Soviet fighting Nazi, socialist political sympathies, weak security coating program needed for quick assembly of big program)
iv. right field after war end w/Japan > Lavrenti Beria = channelise of entire project, Kurchatov = scientific director w/ data gettable on American program / design decription of Fat universe Bomb provided by Fuchs (June 1945) > achieve first tryout in almost 4 yrs
II.Tests (test explosions)
A. initial nuclear weapons, test drives
i.First Soviet nuclear nuclear reactor / first nuclear reactor in Europe = went critical on
ii.Second nation to lard nuclear device (August 29, 1949) Christmas day 1946, 6 p.m. local time @ Kurchatov Institute in Moscow
iii.



First Soviet nuclear test ( enactment named First Lightning) detonate a plutonium bomb (the RDS-1), code designation RDS actually arbitrary and meaningless, however various community on the project gave it a variety of interpretations (( oneness popular one was Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina (Stalins Rocket Engine), or Russia Does It Alone)), whole focus of the Soviet program = set off a Soviet atomic blast @ earliest possible time whatever the damage (((At Berias insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design)))
iv.124 peaceful nuclear explosions
B.Failed tests
III.USSR use of Nuclear Weapons
A.Lakes and recevoirs
IV.Former USSR Republics
A.Where set
i.Russia, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
ii.US and Russia decide to prevent excessive increase- all but Russia give nuclear weapons to Russia or...If you want to get a skilful essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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