Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
First Soviet atomic bomb test (1949)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “The first Soviet bomb”
29 Aug 1949 — The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb on the steppe west of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, years earlier than Western intelligence expected. Beria ran the project, prisoners built much of it, and espionage supplied the design of the first device.
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- High Stalinism (1945–53) (chapter 11 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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