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The Ghost Fleet of the Bikini Atoll
Between 1946 and 1958 the United States embarked on one of the most spectacular scientific experiments the world has ever seen. To trial the newly invented atomic weapon, 67 nuclear bomb tests were conducted in the South Pacific on Bikini and Enewetak Atoll. Among them some of the biggest explosions the world has ever experienced. -
British Bomb,German Targets
The British bomb German targets during the night hoping to reduce their fatalities. Air crews have a 50/50 chance of returning from each mission. It’s an almost unsustainable loss rate and almost tactically pointless as targets are rarely destroyed. -
Manhatten Project
On August 6,1945, the first Atomic bomb was succefully dropped in Alamogordo, New Mexico. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
It was the defining moment of the 20th century,the scientific, technological, military and political gamble of the world’s first atomic attack. On 6 August, 1945, an American mission killed 200,000 people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima and called a halt to a war that had gripped the world for six years. -
soviets explode atomic bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the ussr successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning." -
Klaus Fuchs aressted
Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist who helped developed the atomic bomb, is arrested in Great Britain for passing top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union -
Russia has a bomb
Russia gains acess to the atomic bomb for there use. -
Britain successfully tests Atomic bomb
In February 1952, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill publicly announced the plans to test a British nuclear weapon, and on October 3 a 25 kiloton device- similar to the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan was successfully detonated in the hull of the frigate HMS Plym anchored off the Monte Bello Islands. -
united states tests first hydrogen bomb
Later on the Atomic Bomb leads people to the Hydrogen Bomb. -
"Spies"
On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. -
china gets atomic bomb
The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964. -
After bomb
On July 3, 1987, 42 years after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets recalls his mindset during the fateful mission on August 6, 1945.
