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SOVIET ATOMIC TESTS
Date
US Statement
USSR Statement
6 Nov 1947
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MOLOTOV:
"The ‘secret’
of the atom bomb has
"long ceased to exist'".
1 Oct 1948
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VISHINSKY:
"It is a
mistake to think there
is just one state which
has a monopoly over
atomic energy and the
atomic bomb."
President TRUMAN:
"We have evidence
that within recent
weeks an atomic
explosion occurred
in the USSR."
24 Sept 1949
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23 Sept 1949
TASS:
"Despite the
existence in its coun-
try of an atomic weapon,"
the Soviet government
would continue to de-
mand "absolute pro-
hibition of the use of
atomic weapons."
3 Oct 1951
President TRUMAN:
"Another atomic bomb
has recently been
exploded within the
Soviet Union.
In
spite of Soviet pretensions that their
atomic energy program
is being directed ex-
clusively toward
peaceful purposes,
this event confirms
again that the Soviet
Union is continuing
to make atomic weapons."
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