aug 8, 1949
The USSR tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949.
Now I'm puzzled - I went through most of those years in the RAF and don't remember the Soviet Union ever using any atomic bomb.
They each wanted to promote their competing political ideologies.
The United States was the first country to develop an atomic weapon.
The Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb in 1949.
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the united states had the atomic bomb. The Soviet Union had the world's most powerful army.
The Rosenbergs were involved in the Manhattan Project which designed and made the first atomic bomb. They spied for the Soviet Union and passed the information to the Soviet Union on how to make an atomic bomb. They were caught and were executed for spying. With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the great value of their spying to the Soviet Atomic Bomb program was revealed.
The Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949.
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The Tsar Bomba, Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union