Physiologic Effects of Antidiuretic Hormone. Effects on the Kidney. The single most important effect of antidiuretic hormone is to conserve body water by reducing the loss of water in urine. A diuretic is an agent that increases the rate of urine formation.
Russian Development of the Atomic Bomb, 1949. From Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1949. TRUMAN SAYS RUSS HAVE A-BOMB. Washington, Sept. 23 (AP)-An atomic explosion has occurred in Russia--a fateful portent that the Soviets have broken an American A-bomb monopoly on which the non-Communists world depended so heavily.ashington, Sept. 23 (AP)-An atomic explosion has occurred in Russia--a fateful portent that the Soviets have broken an American A-bomb monopoly on which the non-Communists world depended so heavily.
Tsar Bomba (RDS-220 hydrogen bomb) - 50Mt. The RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomba, is the biggest and most powerful thermo nuclear bomb ever made. It was exploded by the Soviet Union on 30 October 1961 over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Russian Arctic Sea. The hydrogen bomb was air dropped by a Tu-95 bomber using huge fall-retardation parachute.