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
Not exact matches
The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of atomic -
weapons testing by the
Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.
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
In an article published in Moscow News last month, he claimed that, despite official assurances that the
Soviet Union had discontinued production of chemical
weapons in 1987, the institute had continued its chemical
weapons research and had recently
tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimov.
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.
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.