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So it's an indication of the importance Stalin gave to the Soviet atomic bomb program that he appointed Beria to head it on August 7, 1945, the day after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The chair of the Special Committee on the atomic bomb, Lavrentii Beria, arrived in the middle of August. He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Stalin had ordered that the plant be built in a hurry after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It produced the plutonium needed for the first Soviet nuclear bomb - which ... The atomic orphan draws her ...

Stalin had ordered that the plant be built in a hurry after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It produced the plutonium needed for the first Soviet nuclear bomb - which ... The atomic orphan draws her ...

US policymakers felt more confident after realising the power of the atomic bomb. Truman was far more sceptical of Stalin than Roosevelt had been. He and his advisers believed the USSR had no ...