Sword of Damocles (2003)

1953. Taken out of the hangar first Soviet thermonuclear bomb "Sakharov puff." Thermonuclear bomb taken to the bomber and suspended in the bomb bays.

General view of the H-bomb.

The launch of the R-7. The first satellite of the Soviet Union, was launched into space.

Khrushchev visited the United States, welcomed the participants on the street.

Khrushchev gives U.S. President Eisenhower, a copy of the satellite "pennant." The launch of the R-7, Gagarin is in it.

Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin riding in a car in Moscow.

Glee people.

Vienna in 1962. John F. Kennedy comes to the car through a guard of honor.

John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev talking.

Khrushchev in the cabin, looking out the window.

Photo Khrushchev and Andrei Sakharov.

Says Andrei Sakharov.

Tells Yu.A.Trutnev, party design 50 megaton bomb.

City-polygon Arzamas-16. The main square of the city.

Photos developers bomb Adamski, Babaev, Smirnov, Trutnev.

Army units GDR erected a wire fence on the border of the eastern zone of Berlin.

Built the Berlin Wall.

Island of Novaya Zemlya.

Photo Head landfill Kudryavtseva.

The building of the UN General Assembly.

Meeting of the Assembly.

Assembly vote against the test of the bomb in the USSR. Palace of Congresses.

Opening of the meeting and the Congress.

Khrushchev's speech.

Preparation of H-bomb to be sent to the site for testing.

Tells V.B.Adamsky, party design 50 megaton bomb.

Tells Yu.N.Smirnov, party design 50 megaton bomb.

Job design bureau.

Sending a nuclear bomb by rail to the Kola Peninsula.

Off and flying American bombers.

Qualified technical staff the nuclear program.

Preparing turboprop Tu-95 to H-bomb tests.

Aircraft painted white light reflective paint.

Spetssostav with thermonuclear bomb arrived at the Kola Peninsula.

The bomb was transferred into a 40-ton trailer and taken to a special room.

The building where the bomb led to the firing state.

Berlin.

On the road going cars with soldiers and tanks.

Tanks drove away from the limit line.

Kola Peninsula.

Airfield.

About the preparations for the transportation of the bomb on the plane TU-95. Bad weather has been covered with snow equipment for automatic photography.

Destroyer squadron "Brave." Photos Minister of Medium Machine Slavskogo and Marshal Moskalenko.

Tu-95, after taking off TU-16 aircraft laboratory.

Resetting the thermonuclear bomb.

The explosion of a thermonuclear bomb.

Photo Pavlova.

Return of TU-95 and TU-16 on base.

Light flash from the explosion of a bomb.

Photo: the signing of a nuclear test ban.