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aug 29, 1949 - USSR gets the Atomic Bomb

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On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons

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aug 29, 1949
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~ 76 years ago