Soviet atomic bomb project
Soviet atomic bomb project, Советский проект атомной бомбы was the classified program authorized by Joseph Stalin to develop nuclear weapons during World War II Soviet atomic bomb project Russian physicists Andrei Sakharov ( left ) and Igor Kurchatov, who led the program to success. Operational scope Operational R&D Location Atomgrad, Semipalatinsk, Chagan Lake Planned by NKVD, NKGB GRU, MGB, PGU Date 1940–49 Executed by Soviet Union Outcome The successful development of nuclear weapons. The Soviet atomic bomb project [1] (Russian: Советский проект атомной бомбы, Sovetskiy proyekt atomnoy bomby ) was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. [2] [3] Although the Soviet scientific community discussed the possibility of an atomic bomb throughout the 1930s, [4] [5] going as far as making a concrete proposal to develop such a weap