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Parent topics
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- Lavrenti Beria [r]: (1899-1953) Soviet security and intelligence official, who rose from the Cheka until becoming head of state security; managed Soviet nuclear program; attempted to assume power after the death of Joseph Stalin but was executed by a coalition of other seekers of power [e]
- Igor Kurchatov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yuli Khariton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation Borodino [r]: Soviet program to build a fission device, analogous to the Manhattan Project, under the policy direction of Lavrenti Beria, technical direction of Igor Kurchatov with Yuli Khariton as head of the weapons laboratory at Sarov/Arzamas-16 [e]
Subtopics
Weapons
- RDS-1 (nuclear weapon) [r]: Initially tested in 1948, the first Soviet fission device; 22 kt yield; test called Joe-1 in the West; put into limited deployment [e]
- RDS-2 (nuclear weapon) [r]: 1951 improved version of the Soviet RDS-1 atomic bomb; 38 kt yield [e]
- RDS-37 (nuclear weapon) [r]: First Soviet true fusion device using a Teller-Ulam design rather than Layer Cake (nuclear weapon); 1.6 Mt yield at the 22 November 1955 test, reduced from the design yield [e]