This story appears in the December 2008 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe Â». Starting a business was the last thing on Sean Hackney's mind when he sat down to write a business plan. Hoping to persuade a soft drink company to hire him, Hackney scripted a plan for taking on his former employer, Red Bull North America Inc.
1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
The Soviets accelerated the program after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet atomic project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project as well as the American nuclear efforts.DS-1, the first Soviet atomic test was internally code-named First Lightning (Ð¿ÐµÑÐ²Ð°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð»Ð½Ð¸Ñ, or Pervaya Molniya) August 29, 1949, and was code-named by the Americans as Joe 1. The design was very similar to the first US Fat Man plutonium bomb, using a TNT / hexogen implosion lens design.