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Ukraine’s Nuclear HistoryUkraine’s Contribution to the Soviet Union’s Nuclear Programme

Ukraine’s Nuclear History: Ukraine’s Contribution to the Soviet Union’s Nuclear Programme [The authors of the chapter try to explain in that way Ukraine contributed to the Soviet Union Nuclear Programme, both military and peaceful. The arguments are developed in three subchapters. The first section provides a retrospective analysis of nuclear physics development on the territory of Ukraine from the 1900s to the 1930s with a special focus on the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkiv. The second demonstrates the role of the scientists of the UIPT in the early stage of the Soviet Atomic Project elaborating important discoveries enabling the construction of an atomic bomb. It also explains why Soviet Ukraine took a secondary role in terms of nuclear research and the creation of the hydrogen bomb in the Soviet Union. The third section covers the peaceful nuclear energy research and infrastructure development in Soviet Ukraine during 1945–1986. The authors pay special attention to the shortfalls of the Soviet policy regarding nuclear safety that all in all caused the Chernobyl accident, an international-scale tragedy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Ukraine’s Nuclear HistoryUkraine’s Contribution to the Soviet Union’s Nuclear Programme

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-030-90660-3
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9 –81
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-90661-0_2
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[The authors of the chapter try to explain in that way Ukraine contributed to the Soviet Union Nuclear Programme, both military and peaceful. The arguments are developed in three subchapters. The first section provides a retrospective analysis of nuclear physics development on the territory of Ukraine from the 1900s to the 1930s with a special focus on the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkiv. The second demonstrates the role of the scientists of the UIPT in the early stage of the Soviet Atomic Project elaborating important discoveries enabling the construction of an atomic bomb. It also explains why Soviet Ukraine took a secondary role in terms of nuclear research and the creation of the hydrogen bomb in the Soviet Union. The third section covers the peaceful nuclear energy research and infrastructure development in Soviet Ukraine during 1945–1986. The authors pay special attention to the shortfalls of the Soviet policy regarding nuclear safety that all in all caused the Chernobyl accident, an international-scale tragedy.]

Published: Feb 13, 2022

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