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The start of the Nuke
In 1938 two German scientist Otto Hahn and Fritz Stassman and a Physisist Lise Meitner from Austria, The Discoverd they could split the nucleus of uranium by bombarding it with neutrons , they called it Fussion. As the uranium's nucleus split some of the mass was converted into heat enegey -
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The letter to the presedent
It is said that Albert Einstien help create the Atomic bomb (Little Boy, Fat Man) but there is otherproof that he helped to create the Atomic bomb by sending a letter to President Roosevelt that urged him to build the Atomic bomb. -
All that money
From 1939 to 1945 the U.S. goverment spent over $2 million to the manhattan project to create the atomic bombs -
America and North Korea talk
American and North Korean delegations met in Geneva in autumn 1994 to establish a framework to resolve nuclear issues in the Korean peninsula. Under the agreement, North Korea would sign a treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in exchange for U.S. support in building safe nuclear energy facilities and formal assurance against the threat or use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against North Korea. Both sides agreed to take steps towards better political and economic relations. In subse -
The first ban on the nuke
In 1954, President Jawaharlal Nehru of India called for a ban on nuclear testing. It was the first large-scale initiative to ban using nuclear technology for mass destruction. -
The Mushroom Cloud
In 1945 Jul 16 the U.S. tested there first Atomic bomb in new mexico, three weeks later they droped little boy, and fat man on japan they later surrender -
Its electricity
In 1955 in Arco, Idaho was the first town to use electricity ftom nuclear power plant called the National Reactor Station now called the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory -
France is in the race!
France exploded its first nuclear device in 1960 -
Here comes China!
China entered the "Nuclear Arms Club" in October 1964 when it conducted its first test. -
Use nuclear energy for peace
The United States, Soviet Union and some sixty other countries signed a treaty to seek the ends of the nuclear arms race and promote disarmament on July 1, 1968. The treaty bars nuclear weapons states from propogating weapons to other states and prohibits states without nuclear weapons to develop or acquire nuclear arsenal. It permits the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. -
Here cimes India
In 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test: a subterranean explosion of a nuclear device (not weapon). India declared it to be a "peaceful" test, but it announced to the world that India had the scientific know-how to build a bomb. -
The nuclear weapons state
At this time, the five declared nuclear weapons states are the USA, USSR, UK, France and China. -
Nuclear Free-Zone
In December, 1986, The South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone was put into effect. -
America and North Korea talk
American and North Korean delegations met in Geneva in autumn 1994 to establish a framework to resolve nuclear issues in the Korean peninsula. Under the agreement, North Korea would sign a treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in exchange for U.S. support in building safe nuclear energy facilities and formal assurance against the threat or use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against North Korea. Both sides agreed to take steps towards better political and economic relations. In subse -
North Korea sign the NPT
In 1994, faced with North Korea’s announced intent to withdraw from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires non-nuclear weapon states to forswear the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons, the United States and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework. Under this agreement, Pyongyang committed to freezing its illicit plutonium weapons program in exchange for aid. Following the collapse of this agreement in 2002, North Korea claimed that it had withdrawn from the NPT in -
The nan on nuclear bombs
The United Nations, on December 12, 1995, decreed an immediate ban on all nuclear testing and urged disarmament with the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. -
North Korea test fires a nucklear missile
In 1998 North Korea alarmed Japan by test-firing a medium range-missile (without weapons) over the Japanese mainland. The missile's apparent range, some 1,000 kilometers or 600 miles, meant that any part of Japan -- and by default any part of South Korea -- was within range of North Korean weaponry. Japan is the only country ever to have been attacked by nuclear weapons and anti-nuclear sentiment runs particularly deep. -
Axis of evil
In 2002, American President George W. Bush named Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the Axis of Evil, in part due to U.S. suspicions of those countries having weapons of mass destruction. Later that year, unofficial reports suggest that North Korea has confirmed the existence of nuclear arsenals, and intelligence reports indicate that the dictatorial power will have enough plutonium to build five or six nuclear bombs by May 2003. -
The nuclear talk
The second major diplomatic effort were the Six-Party Talks initiated in August of 2003 which involved China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the United States. -
The threat
April 9, 2005: North Korea expert Selig Harrison tells reporters that, during a recent meeting, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan said Pyongyang might give nuclear weapons to terrorists if “the United States drives us into a corner.” -
The Suprise
In between periods of stalemate and crisis, those talks arrived at critical breakthroughs in 2005, when North Korea pledged to abandon “all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs” and return to the NPT, and in 2007, when the parties agreed on a series of steps to implement that 2005 agreement. -
The alarming test
July 4-5, 2006: North Korea test fires seven ballistic missiles, including its longest-range missile, the Taepo Dong-2. The other six tests include a combination of short- and medium-range Scud-C and Nodong ballistic missiles, launched from the Kittaraeyong test site. Although the tests of the six short-range missiles appear to be successful, the Taepo Dong-2 fails less than a minute after launch. -
North Korea's return to the nuclear project
Those talks, however, broke down in 2009 following disagreements over verification and an internationally condemned North Korea rocket launch. Pyongyang has since stated that it would never return to the talks and is no longer bound by their agreements. The other five parties state that they remain committed to the talks, and have called for Pyongyang to recommit to its 2005 denuclearization pledge.
