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COLD WAR 28/21
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Transcript of interview with [test pilot Colonel] Sergei Davydov, 1996
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- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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18pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Dubovich Davydov, relating to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet atomic bomb development programme, 1945-1949; the importance of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; Soviet thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb tests, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 12 Aug 1953; Soviet nuclear civil defence measures, [1950-1955]. 18pp
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