Sentences with phrase «soviet nuclear weapons test»

In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

But I was afraid of governments launching gigaton nuclear weapons on spacecraft, as was a Russian colleague who had participated in the Soviet weapons program and had some wonderful stories about nuclear tests that went wrong.

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine — a Soviet scientist

Recalculated yield estimates of Soviet weapon tests indicate that U.S.S.R. compliance with treaty limits has restrained its development of strategic nuclear warheads

He negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets which he was unable to sign because Francis Gary Powers was shot down and the Soviets grandstanded for several months before getting to the banning of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.

Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.