The caption says this is model of the first Soviet bomb at “the Polygon,” which was the code name for the Semipalatinsk test site.5 Somehow it manages to look very futuristic (the big circles, the large poles) and yet quite rustic (the trees, the way in which everything looks like it has been fashioned by hand by… Lire la suite Joe-1
The Soviet Union made no announcement after its first atomic bomb test in 1949—but the US did. This is the hitherto untold story of how the secret was extracted from rainwater.
Herbert Friedman, Luther B. Lockhart and Irving H. Blifford
Image : Joe-1, 29 August 1949. Photo from Peter Kuran’s film « Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie, » as displayed on nuclearweaponsarchive.org, and used with permission of Peter Kuran.