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Uranium is a significant discovery by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist, and was named after the planet Uranus. It is one of the key ingredients in making some types of nuclear warheads. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/outline-history-of-nuclear-energy#conceiving-the-atomic-bomb -
Italian physicist Enrico Fermi performed a series of experiments in which he exposed many elements to low-speed neutrons. https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Residual-radiation-and-fallout#ref275639 -
Chain reaction of Uranium deemed possible, but unproven by the Advisory Committee on Uranium after U.S. taken interest after Nazi Germany begins to show interest. https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Residual-radiation-and-fallout -
The decision was made to proceed simultaneously on all promising production methods for nuclear weapons. Project got its name in August of that year. https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Residual-radiation-and-fallout#ref275639 -
The atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," was dropped. Estimated to yield 15 kilotons of TNT. It was the first atom bomb used for a non-testing purpose. https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/Residual-radiation-and-fallout#ref275639 -
In the years after WWII, Russia, formerly known as the USSR, announced its own nuclear warheads. https://www.britannica.com/technology/list-of-states-with-nuclear-weapons-2227841 -
In secret, a small Defence Policy Committee chaired by Churchill decided to further the development of nuclear weapons in Britain. https://www.britannica.com/technology/nuclear-weapon/The-spread-of-nuclear-weapons -
On this date, the Tsar Bomba was tested. It was and still is the strongest weapon ever used by man. It had a 100-megaton capacity, 3,800 times that of the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tsar-Bomba -
In the early 2000s, North Korea was the most recent country to announce possession of nuclear weapons. It came after the USA (1945), USSR (1949), UK (1952), France (1960), China (1964), India (1974), and Pakistan (1998) developed their own. https://www.factcite.com/useh/5000190full.html -
Modern ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles) travel at high speed carrying an ever-growing payload. In the future, these ICBMs are made to be able to move faster and to cause more destruction.