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Book "Nuclear Testing in the USSR. Volume 1. Objectives. General Characteristics. Organization of USSR Nuclear Testing. First Nuclear Tests"

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The book is based on a vast body of factual data and provides fair and diverse information on different aspects of nuclear testing history of the Soviet Union. Using the archive data, a group of specialists from the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and Russian Academy of Sciences prepared an unclassified summary of the basic scientific and technical facts related to the history of nuclear testing, particular features of nuclear testing technology, primary goals of nuclear testing programs, and operation of nuclear test sites. The objective of the authors is to provide specialists and the public with direct information on the features of the Soviet nuclear testing program.

The book consists of the following sections:

Chapter 1. Nuclear Tests and Nuclear Weapons Development in the USSR;
Chapter 2. Soviet Union's State System of Nuclear Testing Logistics;
Chapter 3. USSR Nuclear Weapons Tests and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (1949 through 1990);
Chapter 4. Tests of RDS-1, the First Soviet Atomic Bomb;
Chapter 5. Tests of the Early Thermonuclear Warheads RDS-6c and RDS-37;
Chapter 6. Totsk Military Exercises Involving the Atomic Bomb.

The book "Nuclear Testing in the USSR. Volume 1. Objectives. General Characteristics. Organization of USSR Nuclear Testing. First Nuclear Tests" has been prepared by an editorial board consisting of specialists from the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation headed by Member of Academy V.N.Mikhailov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (1992-1998).

Editorial board:
I.A.Andryushin	V.V.Bogdan	S.A.Zelentsov	R.I.Ilkaev
V.N.Mikhailov	G.A.Tsyrkov	A.K.Chernyshev
Preparation of individual sections of Volume 1:
I.A.Andryushin	B.D.Bondarenko	V.S.Bocharov	A.I.Veretennikov
S.N.Voronin	G.A.Goncharov	V.M.Gorbachev	F.M.Gudin
N.V.Danilenko	V.I.Zhuchikhin	S.A.Zelentsov	G.Ye.Zolotukhin
G.G.Kudryavtsev	P.P.Maksimenko	A.M.Matushchenko	Ye.A.Negin
A.A.Osin	V.S.Pinayev	M.A.Sadovsky	F.F.Safonov
V.G.Strukov	I.F.Turchin	Yu.B.Khariton	G.A.Tsyrkov
A.K.Chernyshev	M.L.Shmakov

The book is rich in artwork. The book was published in 1997 in RFNC-VNIIEF printing office.