The Soviet Union
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the US response was to increase its own arsenal and its own testing of nuclear weapons.
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They developed the H-bomb, a bomb more powerful than the atomic bomb that the Americans dropped on Japan, and was stronger than the one that the Soviet Union detonated. The U.S. just wanted to be stronger than the Soviet Union.
The USSR tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949.
While some argued it was dropped only as a strategic measure against Japan, others say that the atomic bomb was dropped to intimidate the Soviet.
atomic bomb or the hydrogen bomb
Japan was negotiatin with the Soviet Union as the first atomic bomb was dropped.
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
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the US response was to increase its own arsenal and its own testing of nuclear weapons.
The Russian atomic bomb was developed under the direction of Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov. The Soviet atomic bomb project was carried out in top secret and successfully detonated its first nuclear device in 1949, making the Soviet Union the second country to possess nuclear weapons.
The Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb in 1949.