Cold War

On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin died on the floor of his dacha, where he had lain unattended for the better part of a day. Nobody had dared go in to check.

On 12 January 1903, Igor Kurchatov was born in the Urals. Forty-six years later, under his direction, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb and ended America's nuclear monopoly four years after Hiroshima.