nuclearvault: Pervaya Molniya (RDS-1) (1949)Semipalatinsk Test Site (Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR)22 kilotons RDS-1, codenamed Joe-1 by the United States in reference to Joseph Stalin, was used in the Soviet Union’s first nuclear weapon test.

nuclearvault: Pervaya Molniya (RDS-1) (1949)Semipalatinsk Test Site (Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR)22 kilotons RDS-1, codenamed Joe-1 by the United States in reference to Joseph Stalin, was used in the Soviet Union’s first nuclear weapon test.

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