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aug 29, 1949 - Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb

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The Soviet Union explodes a nuclear weapon code-named “First Lightning” in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. It becomes the second nation to develop and successfully test a nuclear device.

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aug 29, 1949
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~ 74 years ago