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Nuclear Arms

By lmay
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    Nuclear arms

  • Nuclear fission proven

    Nuclear fission proven

    Otto Robert Frisch experimentally confirms Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman's discovery of nuclear fission
  • Einstein warns the white house

    Einstein warns the white house

    Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to inform him of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb.
  • congress funds nuclear research

    congress funds nuclear research

    after the pearl harbor attacks the US Congress poured money into military research, and above all research on fissile materials.
  • Manhattan project builds first nuke

    Manhattan project builds first nuke

    the so-called Manhattan project had managed to produce enough plutonium to perform a first nuclear test, code-named “Trinity”
  • FIrst weaponized nuclear bomb dropped

    FIrst weaponized nuclear bomb dropped

    Little Boy dropped on the city of Hiroshima in japan. It became the first atomic bomb ever deployed in warfare.
  • UK performs their first nuclear test

    UK performs their first nuclear test

    October 1952 United Kingdom conducts first test of a British nuclear weapon (operation hurricane)
  • pakistans atomic program is started

    pakistans atomic program is started

    1972 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto launched Pakistan's atomic program by making Munir Ahmad Khan as the program head.
  • Mordechai Vanunu rats out israeli nuclear weopons program

    Mordechai Vanunu rats out israeli nuclear weopons program

    Mordechai Vanunu divulges secrets about the Israeli nuclear weapons program to The Sunday Times in London
  • North Korea admits to possesing nuclear arms

    North Korea admits to possesing nuclear arms

    North Korea announces that it has several nuclear explosives
  • North korea performs their first nuclear test

    North korea performs their first nuclear test

    North Korea tests a nuclear weapon for the first time