[8] January 30 - The Soviet bomb and the second atomic age
Assigned reading:
"Stalin's secret order: Build the bomb 'on a Russian scale'," 25 January 1946, from Cold War International History Project Bulletin no. 4 (1994): 5.
Andrei Sakharov, “The Tamm Group,” "The Installation," and (excerpt) "1953", Memoirs (1990), chapters 6, 7, 11.
David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb (1994), chapter 5 (Getting Started), Chapter 7 (The Post-Hiroshima Project), chapter 10 (The Atomic Bomb).
"Russia has the bomb," The New York Times (25 September 1949).
Further reading:
Vladislav Zubok, "Stalin and the nuclear age," in Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 (1999).
V. P. Vizgin, История советского атомного проекта: Документы воспоминания исследования (2002).
Iurii Raniuk, Лабораторія № 1. Ядерна фізика в Україні (2002) and Лаборатория № 1 и Атомный проект СССР, 1938–1956 (2011).
Атомный проект СССР: документы и материалы (1998-2010).
G. A. Goncharov and L. D. Riabev, "О создании первой отечественной атомной бомбы," Успехи физических наук 171 (2001): 79-104.
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