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.
Later that month, President Harry S. Truman announced to the American people that the Soviets too had the bomb. Three months later, Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who had helped the United States build its first atomic bombs, was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.t a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name âFirst Lightning.â In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb.