• RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on 22 November 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons...
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  • RDS-6s (Russian: РДС-6с, from the encrypted Soviet codename for their atomic bombs Russian: Реактивный Двигатель Специальный, lit. 'special jet engine';...
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  • bomb, pressure mounted to develop the first hydrogen bomb. RDS-2 RDS-3 RDS-4 RDS-6s RDS-37 AN602 (Tsar Bomba) Plan Totality Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
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    with the RDS-6 as their main effort instead of the analog RDS-7 advanced fission bomb. This led to the third idea bomb which is the RDS-37. A much lower-power...
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  • 7.5 kilometers from ground zero. Soviet atomic bomb project RDS-1 RDS-2 RDS-4 RDS-37 RDS-220 (Tsar Bomba) Bukharin, Oleg; Kadyshev, Timur; Miasnikov,...
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    is sometimes mistakenly labelled as RDS-37, RDS-202 or PH202 (product 202). It has also been referred to as RDS-220 in a number of relatively recent...
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    development dropped after success of the RDS-6S RDS-27, 250 kiloton bomb, a 'boosted' fission bomb tested 6 November 1955. RDS-37, 3 megaton bomb, the first Soviet...
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    February 2000. DTIC.mil Johnston, Wm. Robert. "RDS-37 Nuclear Test, 1955". Retrieved April 11, 2014. "RDS-37: The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb". Retrieved December...
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  • System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardizes...
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  • the Lenin Prize. He was one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-37. Klinishov graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1954...
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    weapons and was one the designers in the RDS-37 (the Soviet Union's first two-stage thermonuclear device), and the RDS-220 (the largest-ever-yield nuclear...
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    during the Cold War. It tested its first megaton-range hydrogen bomb ("RDS-37") in 1955. The Soviet Union also tested the most powerful explosive ever...
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    that would deliver the RDS-4 Tatyana (a fission bomb with a yield of forty-two kilotons), RDS-6S thermonuclear bomb, the RDS-37 2.9-megaton thermonuclear...
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    response in 1958. Along with increased testing of nuclear weapons (such as RDS-37 and Upshot–Knothole) called the arms race, the tense geopolitical situation...
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    Thermonuclear Charge Design (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the test of RDS-37 – the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear charge". Physics-Uspekhi. 48...
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    a mixture of deuterium and tritium. Sakharov's idea was first tested as RDS-37 in 1955. A larger variation of the same design which Sakharov worked on...
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    (2012). "Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation". International Security. 37: 92–132. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00109. S2CID 57570232 – via JSTOR. Boughton, G...
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  • The Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb the same year, the RDS-37, which contained a fissile core of 235U and 233U. In 1998, as part of its...
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    proved to be unscalable into megaton yields, but it was air-deployable. RDS-37, November 22, 1955: first Soviet multi-megaton, true hydrogen bomb test...
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    Grigory Klinishov 92 Physicist and co-creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-37. 17 June 2023 1 Inside his apartment in Moscow Found dead in his apartment...
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  • and engineer. Grigory Klinishov, 92, Russian physicist, co-creator of the RDS-37 hydrogen bomb, suicide. (body discovered on this date) Maria Lampadaridou-Pothou...
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    as the Teller–Ulam design was known in the USSR, was tested in the shot "RDS-37" in November 1955 with a yield of 1.6 Mt (6.7 PJ). The Soviets demonstrated...
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    Teller–Ulam design was known in the Soviet Union, was tested in the shot "RDS-37" in November 1955 with a yield of 1.6 Mt (6.7 PJ). If the Soviet Union had...
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    TMC-Forum's activities and responsibilities. RDS-TMC is a low-bandwidth system. Each RDS-TMC traffic message comprises 37 data bits sent at most 1–3 times per...
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    nuclear detonation conducted by United States. (1955-11-22)November 22, 1955 RDS-37 1,600 Soviet Union First "staged" thermonuclear weapon test by the Soviet...
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  • development of RDS-37— the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear device. He worked with Vyacheslav Feodoritov in the development of the RDS-220, involved...
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    device with initial compression from 1954 (the RDS-37) and supported requests not to detonate the RDS-220 (the largest-ever bomb) because of the calculated...
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  • 280 m (920 ft) + 1,550 m (5,090 ft) air drop, weapons development RDS-37 1.6 Mt aka RDS-37, Soviet superbomb. 2 stage radiation implosion (Sakharov's "third...
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  • Digi Communications, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian telecommunications holding company operating in Romania, Spain, Italy and now Portugal. Digi...
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    atomic tests before the Soviet Union developed their first atomic bomb (RDS-1) and tested it on August 29, 1949. Neither country had very many atomic...
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