Nuclear scientist Arkady Brish: We created a bomb for Peace – TVNZ

From those with whom he created the Soviet atomic bomb, left almost no one – from the day when the Semipalatinsk test site was first detonated a nuclear warhead, it was exactly 65 years. This year, Arkady Adamowicz turned 97 years old, and in the atomic project … he came out of the guerrilla unit: Belarusian physics and mathematics graduate a year worked in the profession – the war began, and he took up arms. In the 44th year of the young scientist was transferred from the order in Moscow, and in the 47th – was transferred to Sarov, in the newly created Nuclear Center.

-We had in a short time to develop nuclear weapons and force the United States to abandon of its use against us. We did it – we made a bomb for the sake of the world – began his lecture at the Polytechnic Museum ENEA Arkady Brisch.

This museum “Rosatom” has presented the model of interactive backup controller launch an atomic bomb, on which the oscilloscope screen can be see newsreels of nuclear tests, recently declassified archival documents. A central place in the exhibition takes directly atomic bomb RDS-1.

His lecture Arkady Brish dedicated people with whom, by his own admission, was “lucky to work”: designers Julia Nicholas Hariton and spirits, to the Chief KB- 11 Benjamin Zuckerman and other colleagues.

– It was the most beautiful time in my life when I enthusiastically worked and interacted with scientists, among whom were mostly interested in people – says Arkady Brisch. – We have 2 – 3 am conducted at the site, but did not notice fatigue, back to Sarov to get some sleep and then set to work.

However, once played a tough schedule with scientists cruel joke. The object of his group was to create a scheme to undermine the nuclear charge by conventional explosives. At the landfill, nuclear engineers blew every hundred kilograms of TNT to use it to create the most efficient neutron pulse required to trigger a chain reaction in the plutonium charge. And the remnants of TNT testers had to take the end of the shift at the warehouse.

– In order not to dilute the bureaucracy, I suggested to my technique to decompose around the casemates unused explosives and undermine. And since it had many, was a powerful explosion that when we came out of the casemates around it formed a decent ditch. I had to pick up a shovel and throw the earth, until the authorities did not come and did not punish – with a smile says Arkady Brisch.

Chart undermining scientists have developed a reliable – the first nuclear charge RDS-1 successfully shook the ground of the Semipalatinsk test site on August 29 in 1949. And our country has abolished the monopoly of the United States in the possession of the atomic bomb.

Since 1964, and for 33 years Arkady Brish worked as chief designer of the Moscow branch of KB-11 (now VNIIA them. NL Dukhov state corporation “Rosatom” ). Now a nuclear scientist is an honorary scientific director of the institute, who, being one of the leading enterprises of “Rosatom”, together with the institutions of Sarov and Snezhinsk fulfills its primary mission – the policy of nuclear deterrence.

Arkady Brisch – one of those who participated in the first and many other nuclear tests.

– Radiation is selective. Hundreds of times I was at the epicenter of the atomic explosion, and, as you see, lived to be 97 years. Perhaps God protects me, and I advise you not to be a hypochondriac and with prudence relate to peaceful nuclear energy – ended his lecture by Arkady Brisch.