During the Soviet era, the city was off-limits to foreign visitors, and much of what happened there remained classified.

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The US responds with an 11-month long airlift of supplies to people trapped in that part of the city. On 29 August 1949 the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Cold War begins in earnest.

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