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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
“First Lightning”
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — Two Shocks of 1949 in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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