Who oversaw the development and testing of the first Soviet nuclear weapon?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
Igor Kurchatov
Answer
Igor Kurchatov was a Soviet physicist who oversaw the development and testing of the first Soviet nuclear weapon. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1903 and studied physics at Leningrad State University. In 1931, he began working at the Leningrad Physical Technical Institute, where he conducted research on nuclear fission. In 1943, he was appointed head of the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
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