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August 29 - International Day Against Nuclear Tests

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On this day, August 29, 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was closed in Kazakhstan. The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was established in 1947 by a decision of the USSR Council of Ministers. On August 29, 1949, the first RDS-1 atomic bomb with a capacity of 22 kilotons was detonated at the test site. This terrifying sight was witnessed not only by military personnel and scientists, but also by ordinary people who had become hostages of …

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On this day, August 29, 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was closed in Kazakhstan. The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was established in 1947 by a decision of the USSR Council of Ministers. On August 29, 1949, the first RDS-1 atomic bomb with a capacity of 22 kilotons was detonated at the test site. This terrifying sight was witnessed not only by military personnel and scientists, but also by ordinary people who had become hostages of …

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The Soviet Union conducts the first successful test of the RDS-1 atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. The test will be called “First Lightning” by the Soviets, although the Americans will call it “Joe-1” after Stalin (Joseph). The designs of the Soviet bomb revealed striking similarities to the American Fat […] The article LIKE TODAY – August 29, 1949: Joe-1, the Soviet Union tests its atomic bomb appeared first on FLIGHT.

At seven o’clock in the morning on August 29, 1949, a second sun rose over the Kazakh steppes. “An unbearably bright light flashed at the top of the tower. A ball of fire engulfed the tower and the workshop and shot up rapidly,” described an eyewitness at the Semipalatinsk test site. The explosion was neither an accident nor an attack, but the Soviet Union’s first successful nuclear test.

There was an act of peace on the island of Beibtshilk.

The first nuclear weapon of the Soviet Union was called RDS-1. The post Animals burned, ruins flew through the air. The explosion of the first Soviet atomic bomb surprised even the Americans was first displayed by interez.sk.

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fakti.bg broke the news on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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