Martin Antonenko
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Hydrogen bomb ...
On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
This so far most powerful weapon of mass destruction of all time was codenamed "Ivy" ...
... and was from the controversial nuclear physicist Edward Teller ...
... has been developed.
Since then, the USA has seen itself again undisputedly ahead in the nuclear arms race!
But on August 8, 1953, the chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Georgij Malenkow ...
... declares before the Parliament of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet, that the USSR also has the hydrogen bomb:
"The United States say it has a weapon that is far more powerful than the atomic bomb. It is a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb.
Apparently it would be some consolation to them if that were true.
The government deems it necessary to inform the Supreme Soviet that the United States is not a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb. "
These four sentences by Malenkow are widely dismissed as pure propaganda chatter!
But on August 12, 1953, the Soviets followed up their Prime Minister's words with deeds:
On this day the first Soviet hydrogen bomb explodes on the test site at Semipalatinsk (today Kazakhstan)!
The weapon has the designation "RDS-6s" ...
... and one of its most important developers is the nuclear physicist and later Soviet dissident Andrej Sakharow ...
... who is awarded therefore with the Lenin Order ...
... as well as the order and title "Hero of Socialist Work"...:
At 400 kilotons, the bomb has the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy" (13 kilotons) many times over ...
... und ist auch deutlich stärker als "Ivy"!
Internally, the Russians have a different name for their new weapon!
They call it "Слойка" (Sloika = "puff" or "pouf"), the US-Americans give the bomb the code name "Joe-4" - after the Soviet dictator Jossif Stalin who died on March 5, 1953 ...
On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
This so far most powerful weapon of mass destruction of all time was codenamed "Ivy" ...
... and was from the controversial nuclear physicist Edward Teller ...
... has been developed.
Since then, the USA has seen itself again undisputedly ahead in the nuclear arms race!
But on August 8, 1953, the chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Georgij Malenkow ...
... declares before the Parliament of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet, that the USSR also has the hydrogen bomb:
"The United States say it has a weapon that is far more powerful than the atomic bomb. It is a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb.
Apparently it would be some consolation to them if that were true.
The government deems it necessary to inform the Supreme Soviet that the United States is not a monopoly on the hydrogen bomb. "
These four sentences by Malenkow are widely dismissed as pure propaganda chatter!
But on August 12, 1953, the Soviets followed up their Prime Minister's words with deeds:
On this day the first Soviet hydrogen bomb explodes on the test site at Semipalatinsk (today Kazakhstan)!
The weapon has the designation "RDS-6s" ...
... and one of its most important developers is the nuclear physicist and later Soviet dissident Andrej Sakharow ...
... who is awarded therefore with the Lenin Order ...
... as well as the order and title "Hero of Socialist Work"...:
At 400 kilotons, the bomb has the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb "Little Boy" (13 kilotons) many times over ...
... und ist auch deutlich stärker als "Ivy"!
Internally, the Russians have a different name for their new weapon!
They call it "Слойка" (Sloika = "puff" or "pouf"), the US-Americans give the bomb the code name "Joe-4" - after the Soviet dictator Jossif Stalin who died on March 5, 1953 ...
