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Nuclear Weapons Progress Timeline

By timeman333

  • Discovery of Natural Radioactivity

    Discovered by Alt Becquerel
  • Discovery of Electrons

    Discovery of Electrons

    Discovered by JJ Thompson
  • Discovery of the Nucleus

    Discovery of the Nucleus

    Discovered by Ernest Rutherford

  • WWI begins

  • Einstein Publishes Theory of Relativity

  • Civil Defense Formed

    A US council on nuclear strageties

  • US enters WWI

  • Discovery of Fission

  • Discovery of the Proton

    Discovery of the Proton

    Discovered by Ernest Rutherford

  • World War I ends

  • Discovery of Neutrons

    Discovery of Neutrons

    Discovered by James Chadwick

  • Fermi wins Nobel Prize

  • Letter to Roosevelt

    Written by Einstein to warn Roosevelt about nuclear weapons

  • WWII begins

  • Roosevelt speaks at the Pan American Conference

    Roosevelt speaks at the Pan American Conference

  • Discovery of Plutonium

    Discovery of Plutonium

    Discovered by Glenn T Seaburg
  • Pearl Harbour

    Pearl Harbour

    Japan attacks US starts war

  • US enters WWII

  • First Sustained/Controlled Nuclear Reaction

    Done by Enrico Fermi

  • Beginning of Manhattan Project

  • V-Day

  • WWII ends

  • D-Day

    Date of the Invasion of Europe

  • Plowshare

  • Trinity

    Trinity

    21 kilotons
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    Second City of Japan nuked, 21 kilotons

  • VJ-Day

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    First city nuked in Japan killed 70000. was 15 kilotons

  • Nuclear Energy Commission Begins

    AEC created

  • Able

    23 Kilotons

  • Baker

    20 Kilotons and was tested underwater

  • Yoke

    41 kilotons

  • X-Ray

    37 kilotons

  • Klaus Fuchs leaks information to USSR

  • First Russian Bomb

  • Ranger-Able

    1 kiloton

  • Greenhouse Easy

    47 kilotons

  • Greenhouse Item

    45.5 kilotons

  • First Nuclear Test for Britian

  • Ivey Mike

    Ivey Mike

    10 Megatons

  • Upshot-Knothole-Grable

    15 kilotons

  • Upshot-Knothole-Encore

    27 kilotons

  • Atoms For Peace

    Speech U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives to the UN General Assembly in New York City

  • Greenhouse George

    11 kilotons

  • Teak

    3.8 megatons

  • Cactus

    18 Kilotons

  • University of Florida build Research Reactor

  • First Nuclear Test for France

  • Tsar Bomba

    Tsar Bomba

    50 megatons

  • Last Atmospheric US test

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Lasted from October 14-18

  • Limited Test Ban Treaty

  • First Chinese Nuclear Test

  • Nuclear Non-Profliterian Treaty

    opened on july 1

  • Stragetic Arms Limitation Treaty I

  • Outer Space Treaty

    Outer Space Treaty

    adopted by United Nations

  • First Nuclear Test for India

  • The Last Reactor built in the United States

    According to the US Dept. of Energy, the last reactor built was the "River Bend" plant in Louisiana.

  • Stragetic Arms Limitation Treaty II

  • Last Soviet Test

  • Last French Nuclear Test

  • Comprehensive Ban Treaty

    Instituted into force in 2012

  • Last Pakistani Test

  • Last Nuclear Test by India

  • Last US Nuclear Test

  • First Nuclear Test for Pakistan

  • First Nuclear Test for North Korea

  • The Latest Commission for a reactor in the US