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Who: Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the Soviet nuclear weapons program
What: Writing a letter to Stalin in response to the U.S. explosion of a hydrogen bomb
Where: Soviet Union
When: May 25, 1950
Why/CI: The purpose of the letter is to inform Stalin about the U.S. development of a hydrogen bomb and to propose that the Soviet Union should also start working on its own hydrogen bomb program.