Top secret: Declassified files tell dramatic story of how first Soviet atomic bomb was made (PHOTOS)

Sputnik Maksim Blinov

After the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the USSR needed to develop its own A-bomb fast to keep parity. The declassified papers provide a glimpse into how the elaborate task was achieved just four years later.

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