Nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov was co-creator of the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb.
Russian nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov, co-creator of the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, has been found dead in his apartment in Moscow, local media reported on Wednesday.
Emergency services told Tass, Russia's state-run news agency, that Klinishov, 92, died by suicide. His body was found on June 17 at his central Moscow apartment on the Kosmodamianskaya embankment by his daughter, who also found a note beside him in which he said goodbye to his loved ones, daily newspaperKlinishov was one of the creators of RDS-37, the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb—also known as a hydrogen bomb. The bomb was tested in 1955.
RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The gun was rated at about 3 megatons. For the test, it was scaled down to 1.6 megatons. The RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first"true" two-stage hydrogen bomb and the first air-dropped nuclear bomb.Born on October 30, 1930, in modern-day Russia's Ryazan region he was an engineer-physicist, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
Klinishov moved in his early childhood to Moscow, and studied at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute . He later worked as an engineer in Sarov, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, in a department headed by physicist Andrei Sakharov, who was one of the developers of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb. Klinishov was appointed the leading researcher of the department in 2002.
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