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2006 North Korea conducts first atomic weapons test
1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks 1995 Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian 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 U.S. 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 1905 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 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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