Russian Nuclear Support Specialist Day

Nuclear Support Specialist Day in Russia is celebrated on September 4. For a long time, all information related to the invention and use of weapons of mass destruction was hidden from ordinary people. Unknown scientists worked in secret laboratories and lived in closed towns. The main thing that the country needed to know was that the USSR was a nuclear power capable of withstanding the most formidable enemy. In 2006, a presidential decree designated September 4 as a professional holiday for those who forged the nuclear shield of the fatherland over many years. On this September day in 1947, a special department was created in the Soviet Union to manage the testing of a new type of weapon. This was not another whim of Secretary General Stalin. Nuclear weapons were an urgent need for the country of the Soviets, because two years ago the United States demonstrated monstrous power to the whole world by dropping bombs on the cities of Japan. Comrade Stalin managed to maintain the most imperturbable appearance, leading American leaders to the erroneous idea that no one in the USSR understood what nuclear weapons were. In fact, Soviet physicists have been conducting research on the formation of atomic energy from fissioned uranium for a long time. In the conditions of the most difficult war in 1942, the Academy of Sciences began development urgently, but the test of the first Soviet atomic bomb took place only in 1949. The consequences of the explosion at the Semipalatinsk test site shocked representatives of the government and armed forces of the USSR. The blast wave destroyed everything located within a radius of 1 km, leaving behind a monstrous dose of radiation. Beginning in the mid-20th century, the two superpowers of the USSR and the USA entered into an irreconcilable battle for nuclear primacy, called the “Arms Race”. Soon, the Soviet Union shocked the world community with the invention of thermonuclear and hydrogen weapons, and an intercontinental ballistic missile was developed. The nuclear race slowed down only in the 90s; the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant played a big role in this. Having come to their senses, states are cutting back on nuclear testing costs, and the United States is launching a program to dismantle atomic weapons. Facts on environmental damage caused to nature, human health and even the ozone layer of the Earth were made public. At the moment, Russia has incredible military power, accumulated during the years of the Soviet Union. Full control is exercised over the preservation and safety of the powerful atomic potential. This responsibility falls entirely on specialists in the field of nuclear support, whose necessary work is marked with the memorable date of September 4.