Everything about Joe-1 totally explained
The
RDS-1, also
Joe-1, was the U.S.S.R.'s first
nuclear weapon test, named in reference to
Joseph Stalin. It was test-exploded on
August 29,
1949, at
Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R.
The
Joe-1 explosion yielded 22
kilotons of
TNT force, similar to the U.S.'s "
Gadget" and "
Fat Man" bombs. At
Lavrenty Beria's insistence, the
RDS-1 bomb was designed like the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on
Nagasaki,
Japan. The Soviets called it
Lightning's First Strike (
Pervaya molniya), and its development surprised complacent American military-intelligence. Later, they discovered that the Soviets' extensive
Manhattan Project knowledge came from spies such as
Klaus Fuchs, and
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, among others.
There are several explanations for the U.S.S.R. code-name of
RDS-1, usually an arbitrary designation, a
backronym" "Stalin's Rocket Engine" (
Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina), or "Russia does it herself" (
Rossiya Delayet Sama); later weapons were designated RDS, with different model numbers.
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