here is how yefim slavsky recalled these events at that time . while the deputy head of the first mainirectorate of the representative of the ministers of the ussr, in anticipation of a test for everyone, was terribly excited; igor vasilyevich was experiencing this was noticeable. he looked pale, haggard, very nervous, although he tried not to show the views, i remember leaving for the test. he came to say goodbye to us, brought cognac to drink and speaks for our common deeds for good luck. and himself, as a stretched side, kurchatov and his entire team were not sure until the very end that the bomb would explode on august 29, 1949 . the first soviet atomic bomb. on this day , a new nuclear power with an atomic monopoly was born. the usa was finished. cia analysts were confident that the soviet union would be able to create nuclear weapons no earlier than 1953 and miscalculated for almost 5 years. the news of nuclear bomb tests in the ussr came as a shock to them. kurchatov will do this, of course, he is not alone, but nevertheless a personality. in short, it is obviously absolutely sh