Soviet hydrogen bomb project

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Soviet_hydrogen_bomb_project
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf nuclear weapons development program
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:endDate 1955
gptkbp:firstSuccessfulTest gptkb:RDS-6s
gptkbp:firstSuccessfulTestDate August 12, 1953
gptkbp:firstTrueHydrogenBombTest gptkb:RDS-37
gptkbp:firstTrueHydrogenBombTestDate November 22, 1955
gptkbp:fundedBy gptkb:Soviet_government
gptkbp:goal develop thermonuclear weapons
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Soviet hydrogen bomb project
gptkbp:influencedBy espionage from US nuclear program
gptkbp:location gptkb:Semipalatinsk_Test_Site
gptkb:Arzamas-16
gptkbp:notableEvent RDS-37 detonation
RDS-6 detonation
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Andrei_Sakharov
gptkb:Lev_Landau
gptkb:Vitaly_Ginzburg
gptkb:Igor_Tamm
gptkb:Yakov_Zeldovich
gptkb:Yulii_Khariton
Kirill Shchelkin
gptkbp:oversees gptkb:Lavrentiy_Beria
gptkb:Ministry_of_Medium_Machine_Building
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Manhattan_Project
American hydrogen bomb project
gptkbp:resultedIn Soviet Union becoming second thermonuclear power
gptkbp:startDate 1946
gptkbp:usedDesign Sloika (layer cake) design
two-stage Teller–Ulam design
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Vitaly_L._Ginzburg
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8