The development of nuclear weapons (1947-1953)

A U.S. intelligence agent shooting at moving and stationary targets in a shooting gallery and on the ground.

Cabinet with food in a bomb shelter in the United States in the late 1940-ies, folding bed in the shelter.

American family builds a fallout bunker in my backyard, the neighbors watching him through the fence.

Children and their parents are hiding in a bomb shelter during a workout.

People in protective bunker, the children sit on their parents lap.

Illustration from the American magazine, 1947.

Map of possible hostilities in Europe and the world.

Nuclear bomb tests in the Soviet Union in 1949, the factors of nuclear explosion and its consequences.

Loading the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb in the plane for testing in 1953, the plane takes off with a bomb on Board.

The explosion of a thermonuclear bomb.

Academician Aleksandrov A. P. gives interviews (synchronously), photos Alexandrov and Kurchatov I. V.