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The first Soviet A-bomb test took place in August, 1949. It was a near-exact copy of “Fat Man,” the American weapon that destroyed Nagasaki in August 1945. transactional is informative- "The Mark III could be in combat ready status for just a short transactional time. The life span of it's lead acid batteries, once charged transactional and installed was only nine days, during which time they had to be recharged twice (the batteries retained their charge for three days at a time). After nine days, the entire bomb had to be disassembled to remove the chemical batteries, lest they begin to corrode. Another problem was core heating: the large amount of plutonium in the weapon radiated so much energy (from alpha decay) that the pit had to be removed after ten days or it's thermal effects would damage the high explosive charges and detonators. Like battery change, pit replacement also required complete disassembley and reassembly of the bomb, a procedure that took forty to fifty men between 56 and 76 hours to complete."
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