1944: Weapons-grade plutonium, for the very heart of the Fat Man atomic bomb used to obliterate Nagasaki, Japan, is first produced at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington state. Twenty-seven years later, in 1971, the Atomic Energy Commission detonates the largest U.S. underground hydrogen device, during testing in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
The development of weapons-grade [...]
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Nov. 6, 1944 & 1971: A Double Nuke Anniversary
November 6th, 2009 |
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Hiroshima mourns victims of nuclear attack
August 6th, 2009 |
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64 years ago on this day American forces attacked the Japanese city of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb. This was the first nuclear attack in the history of mankind.
Aug. 5, 1963: Finally, a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
August 5th, 2009 |
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1963: Three of the four nuclear powers sign a limited treaty that bans most, but not all, nuclear weapons testing.
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in Moscow by the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain. The fourth nation to possess “the bomb,” France, did not sign the treaty. Nor did China, which [...]