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and yielded 22 kilotons of TNT.

It was roughly based on the American design, Fat Man, and the United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. RDS-1 also refers to the model of nuclear gravity bomb put into weapons production, with 29 bombs stockpiled by 1951.

The United States initially detected the test's nuclear fallout

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