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- Total destruction of Hiroshima, Japan, following the dropping of the first atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945.
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4 days ago · The United Nations, which was founded in 1945, made nuclear disarmament one of its top priorities and has worked to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons through treaties and international agreements. Conclusion. The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was one of the most consequential and controversial decisions in modern ...
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A discovery by nuclear physicists in a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, in 1938 made the first atomic bomb possible, after Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission. In nuclear fission, the nucleus of an atom of radioactive material splits into two or more smaller nuclei, which causes a sudden, powerful release of energy....
On December 28, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the formation of the Manhattan Projectto bring together various scientists and military officials working on nuclear research. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic bomb during World War II. The project was started in respon...
Much of the work in the Manhattan Project was performed in Los Alamos, New Mexico, under the direction of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated—the Trinity Test. It created an enormous m...
Scientists at Los Alamos had developed two distinct types of atomic bombs by 1945—a uranium-based design called “the Little Boy” and a plutonium-based weapon called “the Fat Man.” (Uranium and plutonium are both radioactive elements.) While the war in Europe had ended in April, fighting in the Pacific continued between Japanese forces and U.S. troo...
The United States was the only country with nuclear weaponry in the years immediately following World War II. The Soviet Unioninitially lacked the knowledge and raw materials to build nuclear warheads. Within just a few years, however, the U.S.S.R. had obtained—through a network of spies engaging in international espionage—blueprints of a fission-s...
Over the next few decades, each world superpower would stockpile tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. Other countries, including Great Britain, France, and China, developed nuclear weapons during this time, too. To many observers, the world appeared on the brink of nuclear war in October of 1962. The Soviet Union had installed nuclear-armed missi...
Many Americans became concerned about the health and environmental effects of nuclear fallout—the radiation left in the environment after a nuclear blast—in the wake of World War II and after extensive nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific during the 1940s and 1950s. The antinuclear movement emerged as a social movement in 1961 at the height of th...
The United States and Soviet Union took the lead in negotiating an international agreement to halt the further spread of nuclear weapons in 1968. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(also called the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT) went into effect in 1970. It separated the world’s countries into two groups—nuclear weapons states ...
Some countries wanted the option of developing their own nuclear weapons arsenal and never signed the NPT. India was the first country outside of the NPT to test a nuclear weapon in 1974. Other non-signatories to the NTP include: Pakistan, Israeland South Sudan. Pakistan has a known nuclear weapons program. Israel is widely believed to possess nucl...
North Koreainitially signed the NPT treaty, but announced its withdrawal from the agreement in 2003. Since 2006, North Korea has openly tested nuclear weapons, drawing sanctions from various nations and international bodies. North Korea tested two long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2017—one reportedly capable of reaching the United S...
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May 13, 2024 · The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The United States then used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively, killing about 210,000 people.
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Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an...
Mar 11, 2022 · After several years of intensive research under strict secrecy, the Manhattan Project developed two different bombs that used two different nuclear materials: uranium-235 and plutonium-239,...
A Vickers Valiant dropped the first UK nuclear weapon on 11 October 1956 at Maralinga, South Australia. Later came a missile, Blue Steel, intended for carriage by the V Force bombers, and then the Blue Streak medium-range ballistic missile (later canceled).
On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber named the “ Enola Gay ” dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The device exploded over the city with a force of 12,500 tons of TNT. “ [The city] had been there just a few minutes before . . . but it was absolutely gone,” said one witness.
