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aug 29, 1949 - USSR Tests its first atomic bomb

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The Soviets successfully test their first atomic bomb, codenamed 'RDS-1' or First Lightning in Semipalatinsk, North East Kazakhstan causing nuclear parity with the States.

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aug 29, 1949
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~ 76 years ago