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The History of Nukes by Jaime
On July 16th 1945 the first nuclear explostion happend in new mexico this was part of a test by the US,this event would change our future. -
US strikes Japan
On August 6th 1945 the US drops a Atomic Bomb on two major cities in tokyo,Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Of the 286,00 people living there at the time of the blast, 74,000 were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries this.This was the first major nuclear attack. -
Testings and Bannings?
In later years of Hiroshima the US,Soviet Union and Great Britain tested lots of nuclear weopons later the president of india Jawaharlal Nehru of India called for a ban of nuclear weopons t was the first large-scale initiative to ban using nuclear technology for mass destruction. -
China Joins
China entered the "nuclear arms club" in October 1964 when it conducted its first test. -
The Treaty
The United States, Soviet Union and some sixty other countries signed a treaty to seek the end of the nuclear arms race and promote disarmament on July 1, 1968. -
Treaty starts
in the 1970s the treaty that was made in the 1968 was put in full effect -
India tested its nukes
In 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test,a subterranean explosion of a nuclear device (not a weapon). India declared it to be a "peaceful" test -
Weapon free zone
In December, 1986, The South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone was put into effect. -
Big Booms
In December, 1986, The South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone was put into effect.This cuased major worrieness -
8 states
On October 9, 2006, North Korea tested a nuclear weapon with the approximated power of the Hiroshima bomb. North Korea announced to the world that it has become the world's eighth declared nuclear weapons state