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=== RDS-3 === The [[RDS-3]] was a third nuclear explosive device that was test fired on October 18, 1951, also in [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]]. Known as ''Joe 3'' in [[United States|America]], this was a fission device using a composite construction of levitated [[plutonium core]] and a [[uranium-235]] shell with estimated blast yield of 41.2 [[TNT equivalent|kt]]. The ''RDS-3'' was also distinguished of being the first Russian air-dropped bomb test which was released at an altitude of 10 km, it detonated 400 meters above the ground.
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