The Soviet Union and the Atom

The ''Secret'' Phase

Arnold Kramish

ResearchPublished 1957

A continuation of RM-1711, The Soviet Union and the Atom: The Early Years. The present study discusses the virtual abandonment of Soviet atomic research during World War II and the renewal of this research in 1943. Although the project was maintained on a relatively small scale, their first chain-reacting device was achieved in 1947. With the test of their first atomic bomb more than two years away, however, the Soviets felt in 1947 that they could proceed confidently with the program.

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Kramish, Arnold, The Soviet Union and the Atom: The ''Secret'' Phase. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1957. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM1896.html.
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