atomcentral | 1st Russian Atomic Bomb RDS-1 @atomcentral | Uploaded February 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Restored and complete takes of the first Russian atomic bomb. RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test was internally code-named First Lightning (Первая молния, or Pervaya Molniya) August 29, 1949, and was code-named by the Americans as Joe 1. The design was similar to the first US "Fat Man" plutonium bomb