Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
First Soviet atomic bomb test (1949)
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29 Aug 1949 — The USSR tests its own atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, years ahead of Western estimates. The American monopoly is over after four years and twenty days, counted from Nagasaki.
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- Turning point
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- Soviet atomic bomb and Mao’s victory (chapter 3 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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- Stalin’s Soviet Union
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