Russia has hinted that it may resume nuclear weapons testing in another veiled threat against the West. If it did, the world would know about it. Gone are the days of massive fireball explosions ...
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." ...
with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out ...