2015 Event Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asserts Japan's continued pursuit of a world free of nuclear weapons as the city of Nagasaki commemorates the 70th anniversary of its destruction by atomic bombing 2015 Event Kazumi Matsui, mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, calls upon world leaders to free the world of nuclear weapons during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city 2012 Event Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 2012 Event The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announces it will end talks with Iran; chief inspector Herman Nackaerts says there has been no progress 2012 Event International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA 2011 Event The International Atomic Energy Agency calls for a summit to discuss concerns about nuclear safety following radiation leaks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant 2010 Event Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iran's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level 2006 Event North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test 1997 Event Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks 1995 Death Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88 1994 Death Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79 1986 Event Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups 1986 Event Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups 1985 Event Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter 1974 Death Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78 1970 Death Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58 1970 Death Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49 1967 Death Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62 1965 Event 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched 1962 Event AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation 1960 Event 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa 1960 Event 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California 1960 Event 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee 1959 Event 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts 1958 Event Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole 1958 Event U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole 1958 Event U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division 1958 Event West German parliament desires German atomic weapons 1957 Event Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity 1957 Event International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. 1957 Event U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut 1956 Event U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved 1956 Event 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC 1956 Event 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois 1956 Event Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll 1955 Event Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor 1955 Event Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy 1955 Event 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1955 Event President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war 1955 Event Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years 1955 Event 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn 1954 Event Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer 1954 Event 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1953 Event Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres 1953 Event 1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC 1953 Event 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada 1952 Event Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada 1952 Event 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada 1952 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Event 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada 1951 Event 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico 1951 Event Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 1951 Event U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security 1951 Event 1st telecast of atomic explosion 1950 Event Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb 1950 Event Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb 1949 Event 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1948 Event U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons 1947 Event Atomic Energy Commission confirmed 1946 Event President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1946 Event U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion 1946 Event U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) 1945 Event Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 Event After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 Event 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1939 Event Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb 1928 Death Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1922 Birthday Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 1922 Birthday Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964 1915 Birthday Robert Hofstadter, U.S. atomic physicist 1911 Birthday Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy 1909 Birthday Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor, Atomic Blonde, Road Agent 1908 Birthday Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960, 1907 Birthday J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963 1907 Birthday Miklos Rozsa, born in Budapest, Hungary, movie composer, Atomic Cafe, Fedora 1906 Birthday Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1902 Birthday Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist, Manhattan Project 1887 Birthday Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1871 Birthday Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 1868 Birthday Theodore William Richards, chemist, atomic weights, Nobel-1914 1848 Death Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68 1779 Birthday Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight 1766 Birthday John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter
