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Article: Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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This is a detailed story of the Soviet Union's - the Russian Federation's - rise to the second biggest nuclear power. It is full of political and technical details. It shows, for instance, that the Stalin regime, and Stalin personally, took no interest in the development of nuclear technology and power until he learnt that the Americans had produced nuclear bombs. Then, as a deadly weapon and indisputable symbol of power, it became something like a priority.
The author shows, fairly convincingly, that Stalin and his team firmly clung to the view that world war with the Western powers was not only inevitable but also fitted in with their fundamentalist interpretation ...