On August 29, 1949 there were successful experiments of the first Soviet atomic bomb in Semipalatinsk. This bomb was 2500 times more powerful than the one in Hiroshima. After the US showcase in Japan, Stalin urgently created a special committee for development of the bomb directed by Beria. The committee included reknowned scientists Voznesensky, Ioffe, Kapitsa, Kurchatov and Khariton. Once the Soviet Union officially had its bomb, the Cold War was set in motion and deterrence propped up by the relative nuclear parity of the two powers was in place for several decades... If the Soviets had not procured the bomb, the Cold War would probably not have happened. But of course, not one can reverse the historical time machine...
Today the nuclear club is comprised of US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea... Israel is an undeclared state possessing a sizeable arsenal. Iraq was wrongfully suspected. Iran is aspiring strongly.
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