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Less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviets detonate a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the mushroom cloud produced by it stretched five miles into the sky. Known as the “Layer Cake,” the bomb was fueled by layers of uranium and lithium deuteride, a hydrogen isotope. The Soviet bomb was smaller and more portable than the American hydrogen bomb, so its development once again upped the ante in the dangerous nuclear arms race between the Cold War superpowers.
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First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1953)
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Thank you my friend TSgt Joe C. for making us aware on August 12, 1953 the Soviets detonated a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan which was 30 times more explosive than of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The “Layer-Cake”was fueled by layers of uranium and lithium deuteride, a hydrogen isotope.
The mushroom cloud of the “Layer-Cake” bomb stretched five miles into the sky. Known as the “Layer Cake,” the bomb
Image: 1953-08-12 The mushroom cloud from the Soviet's first hydrogen bomb.
Background from
Cold War: A Brief History
The Soviet Response
The Soviet Union also pursued the development of a hydrogen bomb. Initial Soviet research was guided by the information provided by Klaus Fuchs. Then Andrei Sakharov suggested a different idea. This design, known as, the "Layer Cake", consisted of alternating layers of hydrogen fuel and uranium. However, this design limited the amount of thermonuclear fuel that could be used and therefore the bomb's explosive force.
On August 12, 1953, the Soviet Union tested its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. The bomb had a yield of 400 kilotons. Though not nearly as powerful as the American bomb tested nine months earlier, it had one key advantage: It was a usable weapon, small enough to be dropped from an airplane.
Shortly after the "BRAVO" test, Sakharov's team had the same idea of using radiation implosion. Work on the "Layer Cake" design was halted. On November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. It had a yield of 1.6 megatons.
This began a series of Soviet hydrogen bomb tests culminating on October 23, 1961, with an explosion of about 58 megatons. Khrushchev boasted, "It could have been bigger, but then it might have broken all the windows in Moscow, 4,000 miles away."
First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dUIq8gHgc
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The mushroom cloud of the “Layer-Cake” bomb stretched five miles into the sky. Known as the “Layer Cake,” the bomb
Image: 1953-08-12 The mushroom cloud from the Soviet's first hydrogen bomb.
Background from
Cold War: A Brief History
The Soviet Response
The Soviet Union also pursued the development of a hydrogen bomb. Initial Soviet research was guided by the information provided by Klaus Fuchs. Then Andrei Sakharov suggested a different idea. This design, known as, the "Layer Cake", consisted of alternating layers of hydrogen fuel and uranium. However, this design limited the amount of thermonuclear fuel that could be used and therefore the bomb's explosive force.
On August 12, 1953, the Soviet Union tested its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. The bomb had a yield of 400 kilotons. Though not nearly as powerful as the American bomb tested nine months earlier, it had one key advantage: It was a usable weapon, small enough to be dropped from an airplane.
Shortly after the "BRAVO" test, Sakharov's team had the same idea of using radiation implosion. Work on the "Layer Cake" design was halted. On November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. It had a yield of 1.6 megatons.
This began a series of Soviet hydrogen bomb tests culminating on October 23, 1961, with an explosion of about 58 megatons. Khrushchev boasted, "It could have been bigger, but then it might have broken all the windows in Moscow, 4,000 miles away."
First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dUIq8gHgc
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