1927: The Sunbeam 1000 HP, aka the Slug, was the first car to go faster than 200 mph, in Daytona Beach, Florida. The great Henry Segrave was at the wheel and set a new land-speed record of 203.79 miles per hour.
Although the car was best-known as the “1000 HP” car, it actually had closer to [...]
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March 29, 1927: Fastest Slug in the World
March 29th, 2010 |
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Nov. 6, 1944 & 1971: A Double Nuke Anniversary
November 6th, 2009 |
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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 [...]