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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
AS IS KNOWN, the famous Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons was launched in the United States in September 1943. When the developers of the Manhattan Project in the United States and I. Kurchatov's group in the Soviet Union were building first atomic bomb models they hardly believed that their creation would have such a long life. The new weapon was developed before the Cold War, when a bipolar world order was just beginning to take shape. It is not easy for a person living in the 21st century to imagine the specifics of that historical era, when one global conflict, which took a toll of tens of millions of human lives, was about to be followed by a looming new large-scale confrontation, threatening even a higher death toll and losses.
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