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Living under the cloud of nuclear war: Stunning photographs show the detonation of Soviet nukes being tested in the Fifties
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A Soviet atom bomb test at Semipalatinsk. A Wilson cloud from the detonation of the Joe-3 (RDS-3) Soviet nuclear bomb on October 18, 1951, rises from the Semipalatinsk Test Site in what is now Kazakhstan. A Wilson cloud is a condensation cloud triggered by the shockwave of the nuclear explosion. This test had a yield of 41 kilotons of TNT
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Pictured here is a non-nuclear explosives testing blast as part of the Soviet nuclear programme. This explosion was equivalent to 5,000 tons of TNT. Explosions of this size produce a mushroom cloud regardless of whether they are produced by a nuclear bomb or conventional explosives. These tests would have helped calculate the yields of nuclear bombs, given in equivalent values of tons, kilotons and megatons of the explosive TNT
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A Soviet nuclear torpedo test at Novaya Zemlya is seen here. A mushroom cloud is seen rising from the surface of the sea during the first Soviet underwater nuclear torpedo test. This test, named 22 (Joe-17), took place on September 21, 1955, at the NTSNZ (Northern Test Site Novaya Zemlya) of a torpedo design. The location was NZ Area A, Chyornaya Guba, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
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The first ever Soviet hydrogen bomb test. A mushroom cloud from the detonation of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb on August 12, 1953, is seen rising from the Semipalatinsk Test Site in what is now Kazakhstan. This test, known as RDS-6 and Joe-4, had a yield of 400 kilotons of TNT. It used a 'layer cake' design. Hydrogen bombs use nuclear fusion reactions and are far more powerful than the first atomic bombs
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