RDS-6s (Russian: РДС-6с, from the Soviet codename for their atomic bombs Russian: Реактивный Двигатель Специальный, lit. 'special jet engine'; American...
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successful, and the first implementation was used on the RDS-6s. The RDS-6s paved the way for the RDS-37. By 1952, the Soviet Union began to fully consider...
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Soviet atomic bomb project (section RDS-1)
greater than the RDS-6S, it was not a design that was practical to use, unlike the RDS-6S. Following the successful launching of the RDS-6S, Sakharov proposed...
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atomic bomb, pressure mounted to develop the first hydrogen bomb. RDS-2 RDS-3 RDS-4 RDS-6s RDS-37 AN602 (Tsar Bomba) Plan Totality Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
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RDS-4 (also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately...
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"Tatyana" 42 kiloton bomb. The RDS-4 was smaller and lighter than previous Soviet Bombs. RDS-5 RDS-6, also known as RDS-6S, or "sloika" or 'layer cake"...
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the USSR, RDS-6s (Joe-4), was detonated on August 12, 1953, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan and yielded about 400 kilotons. RDS-6s' design...
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that would deliver the RDS-4 Tatyana (a fission bomb with a yield of forty-two kilotons), RDS-6S thermonuclear bomb, the RDS-37 2.9-megaton thermonuclear...
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updraft tropopause overshoots. History of nuclear weapons Operation Castle RDS-6s - first Soviet thermonuclear test, coming less than a year later "OPERATION...
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Grapple France: Gerboise Bleue Canopus Soviet Union: RDS-1 RDS-4 ("Tatyana") RDS-6s (Joe 4) RDS-37 R-7 Semyorka program K project Tsar Bomba R-14 Chusovaya...
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