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Joe-1 (or '''Joe One'''; USSR version '''RDS-1''' (''Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina''; Stalin's Rocket Engine)) (from other sources RDS-1 means ''Россия делает сама''- transliteration: ''Rossiya Delayet Sama'' - translation: ''Russia does it her self'' (makes an atomic bomb)) was the American codename for the first Soviet Atomic Bomb Test , in reference to Joseph Stalin , the Soviet leader. The bomb was tested on August 29 , 1949 at Semipalatinsk , Kazakhstan . The yield was 22 Kiloton s of TNT , similar to the United States Gadget/ Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki , Japan . At Lavrenty Beria 's insistence, the device was more or less a copy of the American Fat Man design. It was called ''First Lightning'' (Первая молния) by the Soviets. Its development was years ahead of American military-intelligence projections and came as quite a shock to the West . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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