2006 North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test
1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1995 Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1994 Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79
1986 Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups
1986 Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1974 Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78
1970 Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58
1970 Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49
1967 Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1960 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa
1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee
1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts
1958 Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
1958 U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
1958 U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.
1957 U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut
1956 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois
1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
1955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1955 Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1955 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
1954 Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC
1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada
1951 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb
1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1949 U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1948 U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1946 U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion
1946 U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1939 Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb
1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies
1922 Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975
1922 Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964
1915 Robert Hofstadter, U.S. atomic physicist
1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1909 Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor, Atomic Blonde, Road Agent
1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960,
1907 J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963
1907 Miklos Rozsa, born in Budapest, Hungary, movie composer, Atomic Cafe, Fedora
1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963
1902 Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist, Manhattan Project
1887 Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908
1868 Theodore William Richards, chemist, atomic weights, Nobel-1914
1848 Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68
1779 Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight
1766 John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter
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