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.
Printable Version. In September 1949, President Truman announced that the Soviet Union had successfully detonated an atomic bomb. Four months later, President Truman advised the Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with the development of a hydrogen bomb.he speed with which the Soviets produced a bomb led to charges that development of the device was a product of Soviet espionage. The United States set off its first hydrogen bomb in 1953, and the Soviet Union tested its first bomb in 1955.