Soviet atomic bomb project
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The Soviet atomic bomb project was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II.
Alihanov Kurchatov Ioffe
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RBMK reactor from Ignalina Ar M
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Igor Kurchatov
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov was a Soviet physicist who played a central role directing Laboratory No. 2, the research institute of the Soviet nuclear weapons program. He has been called the "father of
Soviet atomic bomb project
…suspecting a Western Allied nuclear program, urged Stalin to start research in 1942. Early efforts were made at Laboratory No. 2 in Moscow, led by Igor Kurchatov, and by Soviet-sympathizing atomic spies in the US Manhattan Project. Subsequent efforts involved plutonium production at Mayak in Chelyabinsk and…
Igor Kurchatov in Leningrad, 1929
Kurchatov. October 1943
Kurchatov at Harwell on 26 April 1956
Kurchatov on a 2003 stamp of Russia.