Editing RDS-1 (section)

== Response in the Soviet Union ==
Following Truman's announcement, Soviet state newspaper [[TASS]] released a report. It suggested the West had detected signatures from excavation works in the Soviet Union. Nonetheless it stated the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons, and noted the November 1947 claim by Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], that the Soviet Union understood the "secret" of nuclear weapons design. [[Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers]] Kliment Voroshilov internationally reiterated nuclear capability five months later in March 1950.<ref name="s693">{{cite web |last=Емельяненков |first=Александр |date=2020-03-08 |title=70 лет назад Москва объявила о наличии собственного ядерного оружия |url=https://rg.ru/2020/03/08/70-let-nazad-moskva-obiavila-o-nalichii-sobstvennogo-iadernogo-oruzhiia.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830045313/https://rg.ru/2020/03/08/70-let-nazad-moskva-obiavila-o-nalichii-sobstvennogo-iadernogo-oruzhiia.html |archive-date=2021-08-30 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Российская газета |language=ru}}</ref>

The RDS-1 device was put into weapons production from 1949 to 1951, stockpiling 29 bombs, compared to the US'  1947 to 1949 production of 120 first-generation [[Fat Man]] bombs.<ref>{{Cite web|accessdate=2015-11-28|title=Создание ядерного щита Отечества|url=http://www.proatom.ru/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2352|publisher=proatom.ru|archive-date=2013-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620053419/http://www.proatom.ru/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2352|url-status=live}}</ref>