RDS-37

RDS 37

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

RDS-37

RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
first "true" (staged) hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield

Nuclear weapon yield

The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy, called the yield, discharged when a nuclear weapon is detonated, expressed usually in the equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene , either in kilotons or megatons , but sometimes also in terajoules ....
of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.

It was a multi-stage thermonuclear device which utilized radiation implosion

Radiation implosion

The term radiation implosion describes the process behind a class of devices which use high levels of electromagnetic radiation to compress a target....
called Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet Union Nuclear physics physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union....
s "Third Idea" in the USSR (the Teller–Ulam design in the USA).

Discussion

Ask a question about 'RDS-37'

Start a new discussion about 'RDS-37'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
first "true" (staged) hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield
Nuclear weapon yield

The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy, called the yield, discharged when a nuclear weapon is detonated, expressed usually in the equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene , either in kilotons or megatons , but sometimes also in terajoules ....
of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.

It was a multi-stage thermonuclear device which utilized radiation implosion
Radiation implosion

The term radiation implosion describes the process behind a class of devices which use high levels of electromagnetic radiation to compress a target....
called Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet Union Nuclear physics physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union....
s "Third Idea" in the USSR (the Teller–Ulam design in the USA). It utilized a dry lithium deuteride fusion fuel, with some of it replaced with a "passive material" to reduce its total yield. Despite this reduction in yield, because the weapon exploded under an inversion layer
Inversion layer

Inversion layer may refer to one of the following:*Inversion , a layer within which an atmospheric property is inverted, i.e., its change is deviated from the normal pattern...
much of its shockwave was focused backward at the ground unexpectedly, causing a site building to collapse and kill three people.

It was air-dropped at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, making it the first air-dropped two-stage thermonuclear test. The RDS-6s
Joe 4

Joe 4 was an United States nickname for the first Soviet Union test of a thermonuclear weapon on August 12, 1953. It was not a "true" hydrogen bomb—it was similar to a "Boosted fission weapon" fission bomb rather than a multi-stage, megaton-range fusion weapon....
device (Joe-4) exploded in 1953 was labeled as a "hydrogen bomb" as well but was more similar to a "boosted
Boosted fission weapon

A boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of Nuclear fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a Nuclear fission reaction....
" fission bomb than a megaton range hydrogen bomb.

See also

RDS-1
Joe 1

The RDS-1 , also Joe-1, was the U.S.S.R.'s first nuclear weapon nuclear testing, named in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was test-exploded on August 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R....
Soviet atomic bomb project
Soviet atomic bomb project

The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb began during World War II in the Soviet Union. The USSR tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949....
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike

Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first US test of a nuclear fusion device where a major part of the explosive yield came from fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy....
(first US hydrogen bomb)
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a so-called dry fuel Nuclear fusion hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle ....
(first US staged dry-fuel design)

External links

at the