RDS-4

RDS-4
Country  Soviet Union
Test site Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR
Period August, 1953
Number of tests 1
Test type Atmospheric Test
Device type Fission
Max. yield Total yield 28 kilotons of TNT (120 TJ)
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RDS-4 (also known as Tatyana)[1] was a soviet nuclear bomb. It was the Soviet Union's first mass produced tactical nuclear weapon. It used a plutonium implosion assembly and had a nominal yield of 30 kilotons.[2] The bomb was delivered from a Tu-4 and Tu-16 aircraft.[2] It was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The bomb was dropped from a IL-28 aircraft on an altitude of 11 km and exploded on 600 m, with a yield of 28 kt.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ a b (Russian)Mesnyankin, Petr (July 27, 1999). "The Russian Atomic Bomb - 50 years". http://www.zavtra.ru/cgi/veil/data/zavtra/99/295/61.html. 
  2. ^ a b c "Atomicforum:Soviet/Russian Nuclear Arsenal". Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080317191459/http://www.atomicforum.org/russia/russiaweapons.html.