The Explorers' Club, № CCCLXI

The Early Cold War, Part X: The detonation of the first Soviet atom bomb, R.D.S.-1, on 29 August 1949—code named/nicknamed "Article 501" or "First Lightning" by the U.S.S.R. & "Joe-1" by the U.S.A.









Cross-reference: The Early Cold War series, with addenda.

№ LXXXII—The Berlin Blockade.

№ LXXXIII—The Berlin Airlift.

Commentary: I know a fellow who was an Air Force pilot during the Berlin Airlift & flew relief flights into West Berlin.

№ CCCLI—The Yalta Conference.

№ CCCLII—The Potsdam Conference.

№ CCCLIII—The Long Telegram.

№ CCCLIV—The "Iron Curtain" speech.

№ CCCLV—The Truman Doctrine.

№ CCCLVI—The Czechoslovakian coup.

№ CCCLVII—The Marshall Plan.

№ CCCLVIII—N.A.T.O.

№ CCCLIX—"Who lost China?"

№ CCCLX—The Tito-Stalin split.