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 | | The project took over the town of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on the Volga, and renamed it Arzamas-16. |
 | | The team (which included other prominent Soviet nuclear scientists such as Julii Borisovich Khariton and Iakov Borisovich Zeldovich) was assisted both by public disclosures made by the US government and by further information supplied by Fuchs, but Kurchatov (fearing the intelligence was misinformation) insisted his scientists retest everything themselves. |
 | | On August 29th 1949 the team detonated its initial test device (a plutonium implosion bomb) at Semipalatinsk; Kurchatov later remarked that his main feeling at the time was one of relief, as he was confident that had the weapon failed, Stalin would have had him shot. |
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