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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Predicate Object
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 ⓘ
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
Semipalatinsk Test Site → operator → Soviet nuclear weapons program ⓘ
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program
Sverdlovsk-45 → partOf → Soviet nuclear program ⓘ
subject linked to: Sverdlovsk-45 (Novouralsk)
linked to: Soviet thermonuclear weapons program