Soviet thermonuclear weapons program

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The Soviet thermonuclear weapons program was the Cold War-era research and development effort that produced the USSR’s hydrogen bombs and established its strategic nuclear parity with the United States.

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instanceOf nuclear weapons development program
thermonuclear bomb
thermonuclear device
thermonuclear weapons program
two-stage thermonuclear device
aim achieve strategic nuclear parity with the United States
develop hydrogen bombs
alsoKnownAs Soviet hydrogen bomb program
USSR thermonuclear weapons program
country Soviet Union
firstThermonuclearTest RDS-6s
firstThermonuclearTestDate 1953-08-12
firstTrueTwoStageTest RDS-37
firstTrueTwoStageTestDate 1955-11-22
geopoliticalContext Cold War
keyInstitution Arzamas-16
KB-11
Ministry of Medium Machine Building
Soviet Academy of Sciences
keyPerson Andrei Sakharov
Igor Kurchatov
Lavrentiy Beria
Vitaly Ginzburg
Yakov Zeldovich
Yulii Khariton NERFINISHED
locatedIn Soviet Union
notableDevice RDS-37
RDS-6s
Tsar Bomba
opposedBy United States thermonuclear weapons program
oversightBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet government
partOf Soviet nuclear weapons program
peakYieldDevice Tsar Bomba
result deployment of thermonuclear gravity bombs
deployment of thermonuclear warheads on ballistic missiles
strategic nuclear parity with the United States
scientificConcept layer-cake design
radiation implosion
two-stage thermonuclear design
significantEvent RDS-37 test
RDS-6s test
Tsar Bomba test
linked to: Tsar Bomba

first Soviet thermonuclear test
startPeriod late 1940s
testDate 1953-08-12
1955-11-22
1961-10-30
testSite Novaya Zemlya Test Site
Semipalatinsk Test Site
usedFissileMaterial highly enriched uranium
plutonium
usedFusionFuel deuterium-tritium mixture
lithium deuteride
yield about 50 megatons of TNT

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Vitaly Ginzburg workedOn Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
United States nuclear weapons testing influencedBy Soviet nuclear weapons testing
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
U.S. thermonuclear weapons program motivatedBy Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Soviet Academy of Sciences participatedIn Soviet nuclear program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Igor Kurchatov notableWork Soviet hydrogen bomb program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Soviet missile program partOf Soviet nuclear weapons program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Soviet thermonuclear weapons program alsoKnownAs Soviet hydrogen bomb program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Soviet thermonuclear weapons program partOf Soviet nuclear weapons program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Threshold Test Ban Treaty imposesObligationOn Soviet nuclear testing program
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program