Prolog16 July 1953, Moscow, Sadovo-Karetnaya, house 47 Man was very sick. Dada sheni, what the hell, sick! The man simply, in torment, was dying. And he knew about it well. That he is dying. His trips to the Landfill, where the Products were tested (RDS-1, "Russia Makes Itself"!) - and his joyful bouncing on black sand, still hot, caked in cloudy glass... The multi-day vigil, together with scientists led by the gloomy Russian genius Beard, affected the emergency, ominously sizzling with overheated steam and spitting black from graphite destroyed moderators with boiling water of the first in Europe Device number 501, aka F-1, at the mysterious Object number Zero-Zero-One in Serebryany Bor.