Soviet nuclear program Soviet nuclear program Alan Nunn May ( May 2, 1911 — January 12, 2003) was a British physicist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviets during the Manhattan project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Nunn May"
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( , May 21 1921 – December 14 1989), was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrei Sakharov"
Boris Lvovich Vannikov ( Russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Ва́нников) ( 26 August, 1897, Baku, Russian Empire - 22 February, 1962, Moscow, USSR), Soviet government and military official, a three-star General. People's Commissar for Armament from January 1939 through June 1941, and for Ammunition from February 1942 through June 1946. From 1945 through 1953 Vannikov was Head of the 1st Main Directorate of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. In this position Vannikov worked under direct leadership of Lavrenty Beria overseeing the Soviet atomic bomb project. After Beria's arrest and death in 1953, Vannikov was demoted to the position of First Deputy Minister of Middle Machinery (a code word for the nuclear research and atomic weapons production in the USSR). Retired in 1958. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Vannikov"
Chagan was a Soviet nuclear test during the Soviet atomic bomb project and was the most powerful test in the series: Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy or Project 7, the Soviet equivalent of the US Operation Plowshare to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons. It was an underground test, and was fired on January 15 1965. The site was a dry bed of the Chagan River at the edge of the Semipalatinsk Test Site, and was chosen such that the lip of the crater would dam the river during its high spring flow. The resultant crater had a diameter of 408 meters and was 100 meters deep. A major lake (10,000,000 m3) soon formed behind the 20-35 m high upraised lip, known as Lake Chagan or Lake Balapan ( ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chagan (nuclear test)"
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов) ( January 8, 1903 – February 7, 1960), Soviet/ Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov was born in Simsky zavod, Ufa Guberniya (now city of Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast). He studied physics at Crimea State University and ship building at the Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd. In 1925 he moved to the Physico-Technical Institute, where he worked (under Abram Fedorovich Ioffe) on various problems connected with radioactivity. In 1932 he received funding for his own nuclear science research team, which built the Soviet Union's first cyclotron. ...more on Wikipedia about "Igor Kurchatov"
Joe One (or Joe-1; USSR version RDS-1 (Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina; Stalin's Rocket Engine)) was the western name for the first Soviet atomic bomb test, on August 29, 1949 at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The yield was 22 kilotons. At Lavrenty Beria's insistence, the device was a more or less copy of the United States Gadget/ Fat Man design. It was called First Lightning (Первая молния) by the Soviets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe 1"
Joe 4 (USSR version: RDS-4 (Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina; Stalin's Rocket Engine)) was an American nickname for the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon and was on August 12, 1953. It was not a "true" hydrogen bomb—it was similar to a "boosted" fission bomb rather than a a multi-stage, megaton-range fusion weapon. It utilized a scheme in which fission and fusion fuel were "layered", a design known as the Sloika ( Ru: Слойка) named after a type of layer cake) model in the Soviet Union. A similar design was earlier theorized, but never tested, in the USA as the "Alarm Clock". ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe 4"
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs ( December 29, 1911 – January 28, 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during, and shortly after, World War II. Fuchs was highly technically competent, being responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and early models of the hydrogen bomb while a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klaus Fuchs"
Lake Chagan (or Lake Balapan), Kazakhstan, , is a lake created during the Soviet atomic bomb project by the Chagan nuclear test. It is roughly 10,000,000 m3 in volume. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lake Chagan"
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria ( Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; ( 29 March, 1899 - 23 December, 1953), Soviet politician and police chief. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lavrenty Beria"
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful uses of nuclear weapons (PNEs). It was analogous to the US program Operation Plowshare. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy"
Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin (ru: Павел Михайлович Фитин) (1907 Ozhogino, Kurgan Region, Soviet Union - 24 December 1971) was a Soviet untelligence officer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pavel Fitin"
Pavel Sudoplatov ( 1907 - September, 1996) was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of major general. He was involved in several famous incidents of the early Cold War, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and the Soviet espionage program which obtained information about the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project. His autobiography, Special Tasks, made him well-known outside Russia, and provided a detailed look at Soviet intelligence and Soviet internal politics during his years at the top. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pavel Sudoplatov"
Perseus was the codename of a possible Soviet spy at Los Alamos during the Manhattan project. This name is also given to a spy at White Sands Missile Range, located further south near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Evidence for his or her existence is based on a few references in KGB archives opened (and later closed) to researchers in the early 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union. There are also a few references to Perseus in the VENONA decrypts as PERS. The identity of this person, or even whether or not they actually existed, is unknown, and many of the facts in the matter are questionable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Perseus (spy)" Stay cool with www.shortopedia.com.
RDS-37 was a Soviet name for their first nuclear test of a "true" hydrogen bomb. ...more on Wikipedia about "RDS-37"
Sarov ( ) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Kremlyov ( ) from 1991-1995. In 1946-1991 it was called Arzamas-16 ( ) and considered a closed city generally off limits to foreigners. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarov"
The Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons. It is located on the steppe in northeast Kazakhstan (then the Kazakh SSR), south of the valley of the Irtysh River. The scientific buildings for the test site were located around 150 km west of the town of Semipalatinsk (later renamed Semey), with most of the nuclear tests taking place at various sites further to the west and south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
Snezhinsk ( Russian: Снежинск) is a closed city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It was formerly known as Chelyabinsk-70. ...more on Wikipedia about "Snezhinsk"
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb began during World War II in the Soviet Union. They tested their first nuclear weapon in 1949. ...more on Wikipedia about "Soviet atomic bomb project"
Theodore Alvin Hall ( October 20, 1925- November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy who, during his work on Allied effort to develop the first atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), gave a detailed description of the " Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of processes for purifying plutonium, to the Soviet Union. ...more on Wikipedia about "Theodore Hall"
Tryokhgorny ( ; also spelled Trekhgorny, Tryokhgorniy, Trehgorny) is a town in Russia, in Chelyabinsk Oblast, founded in 1952, and earlier known under the name Zlatoust-36. The name "Tryokhgorny" means (a town of) three mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tryokhgorny" Things go better with http://www.shortopedia.com. Soviet_nuclear_program
Tsar Bomba ( , literally " Tsar of the bombs"), developed by the Soviet Union, is the largest nuclear explosive ever detonated, and the most powerful weapon ever employed by humans. It was tested on October 30, 1961 over Mityushikha Bay of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic Sea. There is no clear evidence that any examples other than the one tested were ever made. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tsar Bomba"
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ( ; born October 4 1916 in Moscow) is a Soviet/ Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Academy's physics institute ( FIAN). He graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1938, defended candidate's ( Ph.D.) dissertation in 1940 and doctor's dissertation in 1942. Since 1940 up to present time (as of 2004) he works in the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. Among his achievements are a partially phenomenological theory of superconductivity, developed with Landau in 1950, the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas such as the ionosphere, and a theory of the origin of cosmic radiation. In the 1950s he played a key role in the development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vitaly Ginzburg"
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich ( Russian:Яков Борисович Зельдович) ( March 8, 1914 – December 2, 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and general relativity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich"
Yulii Borisovich Khariton (Ю́лий Бори́сович Харито́н, February 27, 1904 - December 18, 1996) was a Soviet physicist working in the field of atomic energy. He was the chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yulii Borisovich Khariton" www.shortopedia.com, there's no better way. shortopedia
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