RDS-37

نظرة عامة

The first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb, dropped from a Tu-16 over Semipalatinsk on 22 November 1955. It used radiation implosion, the same principle as the American Teller–Ulam design, and was deliberately reduced to about 1.6 Mt from a design of roughly 3 Mt.

The bomb burst at 1,550 m under a temperature inversion that reflected the shock wave back to the ground: a soldier was killed when a trench collapsed, and a young girl died under a collapsing building about 65 km away. RDS-37 became the basis of later Soviet thermonuclear charges.

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المصادر

1. Soviet Nuclear Test Summary, Nuclear Weapon Archive (Carey Sublette)
2. RDS-37, Wikipedia