Today in Nuclear Weapon History
Sub-Topics: Nuclear Testing
Historical Events
Results 1 - 48 of 48
1934-07-04 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1939-10-11 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1945-07-16 - 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945-07-29 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine
1945-08-09 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1945-10-08 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1946-05-26 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1946-07-25 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1948-10-21 - UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1949-08-29 - USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1949-09-22 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb
1950-01-31 - President Truman publicly announces development of H-bomb
1950-03-08 - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1952-02-26 - PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1953-11-06 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1954-02-02 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
1955-03-16 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1955-04-01 - EOKA-bomb attacks against British govt buildings in Cyprus
1955-07-15 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1957-05-15 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1958-03-25 - West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1958-03-31 - USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1958-04-04 - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1959-06-23 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1960-04-13 - France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1960-11-22 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1960-11-30 - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1963-10-09 - French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
1966-03-17 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1966-04-07 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1966-12-08 - US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967-01-27 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1967-05-19 - USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1967-06-17 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1971-02-11 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1974-05-18 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1979-05-09 - US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1981-11-30 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1982-12-08 - Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1983-03-08 - House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1983-05-03 - Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983-05-03 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985-02-04 - Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
1986-07-14 - 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1987-06-08 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
1991-07-31 - Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991-10-05 - USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
2007-08-29 - A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
Famous Birthdays
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1887-09-14 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1898-02-11 - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1902-03-02 - Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)
1904-04-22 - J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
1908-01-15 - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
1940-02-02 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
1943-01-07 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1947-01-21 - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
1968-03-13 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
Famous Deaths
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1967-02-18 - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62
2007-08-15 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
