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Malenkov, Georgii Maksimilianovich

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June 21, 1946	Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, No. 1286-525, On Development of Soviet Atomic Weapons Resolution outlining the work of the newly established Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11). Atomic bombs are referred to in the resolution as “jet engines S,” in two versions, S-1 and S-2 (abbreviated as RDS-1 and RDS-2). RDS-1 meant the analog of the first U.S. plutonium-239 implosion type atomic bomb tested on 16 July 1945 in New Mexico RDS-2 signified the analog of the uranium-235 gun type bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
April 9, 1946	Soviet Council of Ministers Resolution, Establishing Design Bureau No. 11 Resolution establishing Design Bureau No.11 (KB-11), which was the Soviet analog of the secret wartime American nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
April 2, 1946	Protocol No. 18 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Excerpt) Special dossier containing a resolution to send a Soviet geological prospecting party to survey North Korea for beryllium.
April 25, 1947	Protocol No. 36 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Excerpt) Special dossier refining aspects of the geological prospecting party to North Korea, to extract "rare elements".
April 12, 1948	Protocol No. 61 of a Meeting of the Special Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Excerpt) Memorandum of the Special Committee of the CC CPSU postponing the geological prospecting for uranium in North Korea.