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The United States explodeds the first Atomic Bomb at the Alamogordo, New Mexico test site. |
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FDR responds to Albert Einstein with respect to appointing a Board concerning the element Uranium. |
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During the Potsdam Conference near Berlin, Truman tells Stalin that the US has a bomb of extraordinary power. |
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France performs nuclear test |
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Great Britain performs nuclear test |
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Shuttle Atlantis launches world's first nuclear-war-fighting satellite |
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France performs a nuclear test on Muruora Island.
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The United States performs an underground nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico. |
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Accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant. |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower advises President Truman not to use the Atomic Bomb. In his assessment, it is unecessary. |
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Chernoyl nuclear power plant disaster in the former USSR. The accident was not officially announced until April 30th, four days later. |
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China nuclear test. Total nuclear explosion tests on the earth: 1452. |
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The People's Republic of China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor. |
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Southeast Asian nations sign a treaty to ban the possession, manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons and created a nuclear arms-free zone from Burma and Vietnam in the north to Indonesia in the south. |
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The Soviet Union performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR. |
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The US Atomic Energy Commission conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. It explodes with a force of 1.15 million tons of TNT and releases Plutonium and other radioactive material nearly a mile away from its crater on Pahute Mesa. The ground shakes and soon after Howard Huges begins his in ... |
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Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China. |
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North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty. |
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U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
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The United States performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak. |
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Explosion at the military nuclear reprocessing plant at TOMSK in western Siberia blows the roof off the building and destroys the plant. |
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Diplomats from North and South Korea, Russia, Japan, China and the United States meet in Beijing to seek a compromise in the Nuclear Weapons standoff with North Korea. discuss» |
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Al Qaeda claims to have acquired ready-made nuclear weapons on black mart. |
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Soviet leader Yuri Andropov invites American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to visit the Soviet Union in response to her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war. |
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India conducts its first underground nuclear tests In the Rajasthan Desert. |
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The United States conducts Operation Upshot-Knothole at the Nevada Proving Ground 65 miles north of Las Vegas. Codenamed Shot GRABLE, a 280 mm shell with a gun-type nuclear fission warhead iss fired 10,000 meter and detonated 160 meters above the ground with a yield of about 15 kilotons. |
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The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy releases an in-depth report for policy makers to confront security, economic and environmental impacts caused by nuclear power reactors in and around Georgia. |
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President Ronald Reagan's administration lifts the ban on reprocessing used nuclear fuel and announces a policy that anticipates the need for a high-level radioactive waste storage facility. |
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President Reagan signs into law the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. |
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Operation ALERT is implemented by the U.S. Civil Defense Agency and millions of Americans and 55 U.S. cities participate in a mock nuclear war. Operation ALERT wiould be abandoned in 1962. |
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