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aug 29, 1949 - Soviets become the second nuclear power

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The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The test, known to Americans as Joe 1, succeeds, as the Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power.

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aug 29, 1949
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~ 76 years ago