The Tunguska Project (Russian: Тунгуска проекта) was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during the Great Patriotic War. This scientific research was directed by Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, while the military logistics and intelligence efforts were undertaken and managed by NKVD director Lavrentiy Beria. The Soviet Union benefited from highly successful espionage efforts on the part of the Soviet military intelligence (GRU). In 1939, the program was started by Joseph Stalin who received a letter from physicist Georgy Flyorov and Albert Einstein urging him to start the research, urged the Soviet Union to take steps to acquire stockpiles of uranium ore and accelerate the research of Enrico Fermi and others into nuclear chain reactions. The Tun
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| - The Tunguska Project (Russian: Тунгуска проекта) was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during the Great Patriotic War. This scientific research was directed by Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, while the military logistics and intelligence efforts were undertaken and managed by NKVD director Lavrentiy Beria. The Soviet Union benefited from highly successful espionage efforts on the part of the Soviet military intelligence (GRU). In 1939, the program was started by Joseph Stalin who received a letter from physicist Georgy Flyorov and Albert Einstein urging him to start the research, urged the Soviet Union to take steps to acquire stockpiles of uranium ore and accelerate the research of Enrico Fermi and others into nuclear chain reactions. The Tun
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| - RDS-1, the first atomic test.
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| notable commanders
| - Vyacheslav Molotov
- Lavrentiy Beria Albert Einstein Dr. Andrei Sakharov Dr. Igor Kurchatov
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| - Soviet Alsos Eastern Front
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| - The Tunguska Project (Russian: Тунгуска проекта) was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during the Great Patriotic War. This scientific research was directed by Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, while the military logistics and intelligence efforts were undertaken and managed by NKVD director Lavrentiy Beria. The Soviet Union benefited from highly successful espionage efforts on the part of the Soviet military intelligence (GRU). In 1939, the program was started by Joseph Stalin who received a letter from physicist Georgy Flyorov and Albert Einstein urging him to start the research, urged the Soviet Union to take steps to acquire stockpiles of uranium ore and accelerate the research of Enrico Fermi and others into nuclear chain reactions. The Tunguska Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly SU 2 billion (about 26 billion in 2014 ruble). Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and producing the fissionable materials, with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons. Greatly aided by its successful Soviet Alsos and the atomic spy ring, the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, code name First Lightning, on 16 August 1944, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. Iron Fist (Russian: Zhelezo Kulak), a gun-type weapon, and the implosion-type Red Storm (Russian: Krasnyy Burya) were used in the atomic bombings of Vichy and Toyama, respectively.
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