Category
page 11949 in military history
North Atlantic Treaty
treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO
Berlin Blockade
blockade on Berlin imposed by the USSR from 1948 to 1949

RDS-1
The RDS-1 (), also known as First Lightning (), was the first nuclear weapons test that was conducted by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m. Kazakhstan Time (decree time) (UTC+06:00), at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and yielded 22 kilotons of TNT.
Raisin Bombers
name given by Berliners to the Western Allied transport aircraft
Revolt of the Admirals
US Cold War incident involving funding and policy dispute about the US Navy
Mutual Defense Assistance Act
United States law, part of the Marshall Plan