The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

But within months he was handing over classified information on the progress of Britain’s atomic bomb research to Soviet agents. Similarly terrified at the prospect of the Nazis getting their ...

So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the scientists and spies who changed history. The race to beat the Nazis and stolen secrets. Show more The story of the atomic bomb. Told through the ...

USI held its annual Shaw Biology lecture in Carter Hall. The guest speaker this year was Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer ...

The number of possible enemies who could smuggle an atomic bomb into the United States has grown from the single Soviet superpower in the 1950s to a sizable handful of states and organizations.

The Soviet Union occupied Korean territory north ... marked the last use of an atomic bomb in combat. Carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft tear up a bridge over the Yalu River. The war ended where ...