this is the section dedicated to the laboratory. number two, and a section dedicated to the radium institute section dedicated to the 817 plant , well known to many as the mayak plant , the first nuclear reactor on our continent, f1, greets us at the entrance; in august 1945 , american bombers dropped two bombs on the japanese cities of herashima and nagasaki, killing more than 100,000 people . against the backdrop of this tragedy, moscow learns of the pentagon’s plans to use similar weapons against the soviet union. the speedy development of our own nuclear safety shield is a matter of vital importance. first soviet an atomic charge was tested in august forty years at a test site near semipalatinsk. here you can see it in full size , and an interesting detail, here are these blue fuses, there are 32 of them, the most difficult moment in creating the charge was to calculate so that these 32 fuses would fire at the same time, ignite and lenses made of explosives, different layers of explosives were used there fast and slow, they had to work with... relations between the former allies of the u