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The experimental breeder reactor no. 1 located at the National Reactor Testing Station near Arco, Idaho makes the first electric power from a nuclear reactor.
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President Eisenhower gives the "Atoms For Peace" speech at the United Nations launching efforts to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy both at home and around the world.
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The Navy launches the first nuclear-powered submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus.
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The Bevatron Particle Accelerator begins operation at the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, California.
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President Eisenhower signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, opening the way for development of a civilian nuclear power program.
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More than 1,400 scientists from 73 nations attend the first United Nations-sponsored International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy held in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The Atomic Energy Commission detonates the first thermonuclear device, code-named, "Mike" at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific. The devide explodes with a yield of 10.4 megatons.
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The Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first full-scale nuclear power plant, becomes operational at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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President Eisenhower Announces A Moritorium on Nuclear Weapons Testing to begin on October 31, 1958.
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The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohobiting underwater, atmospheric, and outer space nuclear tests. Nuclear testing continues underground.
