RDS-37
Sign in to saveRDS-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. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.
Key facts
- Nuclear weapons test.name
- RDS-37
- Nuclear weapons test.picture
- RDS 37 mushroom cloud.jpg
- Nuclear weapons test.picture_description
- RDS-37 in testing (1955)
- Nuclear weapons test.country
- Soviet Union
- Nuclear weapons test.test_site
- Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR
- Nuclear weapons test.period
- November 1955
- Nuclear weapons test.number_of_tests
- 1
- Nuclear weapons test.test_type
- Atmospheric test
- Nuclear weapons test.device_type
- Fusion
- Nuclear weapons test.max_yield
- Total yield
- Nuclear weapons test.previous_test
- RDS-27
- Nuclear weapons test.next_test
- RDS-41
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- Subclass of
- thermonuclear weapon
- Operator
- Soviet Air Forces
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- explosive energy equivalent
- 1.6
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Leading to the RDS-37
- Foundations of RDS-37
- Factors behind the design
- Design process
- Test
- Delivery method
- Effect
- Important results of RDS-37
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.
== Leading to the RDS-37 == left|thumb|Sketch by Sakharov in 1954 of the Soviet hydrogen bomb concept: The RDS-37 was a reaction to the efforts of the United States. Previously, the Soviet Union allegedly used many of their spies in the U.S. to help them generate methods and ideas for the nuclear bomb. The creation of the hydrogen bomb required less usage of this method, although they still received help from some spies, most importantly, Klaus Fuchs.
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