Nuclear
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in the
United States |
1939 |
8.02. |
Letter from Einstein. |
10.21. |
Establishes the Uranium Advisory Committee because of worries that Germany, which had plunged into World War II, might develop an atomic bomb first. |
1942 |
8.13. |
Launches Manhattan Project under military leadership. |
1944 |
9.18. |
Enters into Hyde Park Agreement. |
1945 |
7.16. |
Carries out successful atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
8.06. |
Drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. |
8.09. |
Drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki. |
1952 |
11.01. |
Carries out successful hydrogen bomb test over the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. |
1997 |
7.03. |
Conducts subcritical nuclear tests (15 tests by Dec. 2001; Russia announces it has been conducting similar tests.) |
2002 |
2.14. |
US and UK conduct joint subcritical nuclear test |
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Nuclear
Development
by the
former Soviet Union |
1949 |
8.29. |
Carries out successful atomic bomb test at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, ending the US nuclear monopoly. |
1953 |
8.12. |
Carries out successful hydrogen bomb test. |
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Nuclear
Development by
United Kingdom |
1940 |
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Forms committee of scientists to study the possibility of producing an atomic bomb. |
1943 |
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Participates in the US Manhattan Project. |
1946 |
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Establishes atomic power research center and furthers its own atomic bomb development plan. |
1952 |
10.03. |
Carries out successful atomic bomb test over Monte Bello Islands, Australia. |
1957 |
5.15. |
Carries out successful hydrogen bomb test over Christmas Island. |
2002 |
2.14. |
US and UK conduct joint subcritical nuclear test |
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Nuclear
Development by
France |
1957 |
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Threatened by the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles, begins nuclear development for security purposes under President De Gaulle. |
1960 |
2.13. |
Carries out successful atomic bomb test in the Sahara Desert. |
1968 |
8.24. |
Carries out successful hydrogen bomb test. |
1995 |
9.00. |
Resumes testing in the South Pacific (6 tests by Jan. 1996) |
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Nuclear
Development by China |
1958 |
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Begins operating nuclear reactor through cooperation with the Soviet Union. |
1959 |
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fter cancellation of the China-Soviet agreement, begins independent nuclear development. |
1964 |
10.16. |
Carries out successful atomic bomb test in western China. |
1996 |
6.00. |
Hurries to conduct tests before the CTBT is adopted. |
1967 |
6.17. |
Carries out successful hydrogen bomb test. |
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Nuclear
Development by
India |
1974 |
5.18. |
Successful test of a thermonuclear device (equivalent to a hydrogen bomb) |
1998 |
5.11. |
Successful A-bomb test in Pokaran Desert |
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Nuclear
Development by
Pakistan |
1998 |
5.28. |
Successful A-bomb test in the Chagai Hills |