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Also Known As Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
Date 1954 - 1991
Headquarters Moscow
Areas Of Involvement intelligence
Related People Vladimir Putin • Boris Pugo • Yevgeny Primakov • Kim Philby • Yury Andropov • Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin • Heydar Aliyev • Vladimir A. Kryuchkov • Alexander Litvinenko

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Thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, code-named MIKE, detonated in the Marshall Islands in the fall of 1952. Photo taken at a height of 12,000 feet, 50 miles from the detonation site. (Photo 3 of a series of 8) Atomic bomb explosion nuclear energy hydrogen energy
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