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Nuclear Energy History- Anthony Gross

By The Sensation
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    Nuclear Energy Through the Years

  • Discovery of Natural Radioactivity

    Henri Becquerel

  • Discovery of Electrons

    JJ Thompson

  • Discovery of the Nucleus

    Ernest Rutherford

  • WWI begins

  • Einstein publishes Theory of Relativity

    Einstein publishes Theory of Relativity

  • Civil Defense is Formed

    Council formed August 29, 1916

  • Discovery of Fission

  • US enters WWI

  • Discovery of the Proton

    Ernest Rutherford

  • WWI ends

  • Discovery of Neutron

    James Chadwick

  • Fermi wins Nobel Prize

    Fermi wins Nobel Prize

  • Letter to Roosevelt

    Einstein to Roosevelt

  • WWII begins

  • Roosevelt speaks at the Pan American Congress

    Roosevelt speaks at the Pan American Congress

  • Discovery of Plutonium

    Dr. Glenn T. Seaburg

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan attacks/starts war.

  • US enters WWII

  • First sustained/controlled Nuclear Reaction

    First sustained/controlled Nuclear Reaction
    Enrico Fermi

  • Beginning of Manhattan Project

    Spring 1945

  • V-Day

  • WWII ends

    or August 14 1945- opinion

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Invasion of Europe

  • Plowshare

  • Trinity

    Trinity
    21KT

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    First city nuked, 15KT

  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    Second city nuked, 21kt

  • VJ-Day

  • Nuclear Energy Commission begins

    AEC created in 1946

  • Able

    Able
    23 KT

  • Baker

    Baker
    20KT, Underwater

  • Klaus Fuchs leaks information to USSR

  • X-Ray

    X-Ray
    37KT

  • Yoke

    Yoke
    41KT

  • First Russian Bomb

    First Russian Bomb

  • Ranger-Able

    Ranger-Able
    1KT

  • Greenhouse Easy

    47KT

  • Greenhouse Item

    45.5KT

  • First Nuclear test for Britain

    First Nuclear test for Britain

  • Ivey-Mike

    Ivey-Mike
    10MT

  • Upshot-Knothole-Grable

    Upshot-Knothole-Grable
    15KT

  • Upshot-Knothole-Encore

    Upshot-Knothole-Encore
    27KT

  • Atoms for Peace

    Speech U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives to the UN General Assembly in New York City.

  • Greenhouse George

    11KT

  • Teak

    Teak
    3.8MT

  • Cactus

    Cactus
    18KT

  • University of Florida builds research reactor

    University of Florida builds research reactor

  • First nuclear test for France

    First nuclear test for France

  • Tsar Bomba

    Tsar Bomba
    50MT

  • Last Atmospheric US Test

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    October 14-28, 1962

  • Limited Test Ban Treaty

  • First Chinese Nuclear Test

    First Chinese Nuclear Test

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Opened on July 1, 1968

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I

  • Outer Space Treaty

    Adopted by United Nations

  • First nuclear test for India

    First nuclear test for India

  • The last Reactor built in United States

    According to the US Dept. of Energy, the last reactor built was the "River Bend" plant in Louisiana.

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II

    Signed June 18, 1979

  • Last Soviet test

  • Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

    Between US and Russia

  • Last U.S. Test

  • Last French test

  • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

    Instituted into force in 2012

  • Last Pakistani test

  • Last test by India

  • First nuclear test for Pakistan

    First nuclear test for Pakistan

  • First nuclear test for North Korea

    First nuclear test for North Korea

  • The latest commission for a nuclear reactor in the U.S.