Nuclear Weapons Timeline

11–12 October 1986

US and Soviet leaders discuss abolition

USSR

United States

1 November 1952

• US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev meet at Reykjavik, Iceland
• They 'seriously' discuss the possibility of achieving nuclear abolition.

US tests the first hydrogen bomb

• Detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
• It's 500 times more powerful than the Nagasaki bomb.

30 October 1961

Largest ever bomb test conducted

The Soviet Union explodes the most powerful bomb ever: a 58-megaton atmospheric nuclear weapon, nicknamed the “Tsar Bomba”, over Novaya Zemlya off northern Russia.

8 December 1987

Intermediate-range missiles banned

Every Nuclear Bomb ever used from 1945-1998

• Signed by Soviet Union and US
• Eliminate all their land-based missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles.

9 August 1945

A second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

29 August 1949

16–29 October 1962

• The US explodes a plutonium bomb over Nagasaki
• 74,000 people die by the end of 1945.
• (Little could be done to ease the suffering of the victims who survive the blast)

Cuban Missile Crisis occurs

Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb

• A stand-off begins when the US & Soviets
• US discovers Soviet missiles in Cuba
• US blockades Cuba for 13 days
• The crisis brings the world to the brink of nuclear war.

• Explodes a nuclear weapon in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• It becomes the second nation to develop and successfully test a nuclear device.

6 August 1945

US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

• The US detonates a uranium bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
• Kills more than 140,000 people within months
• Many more later die from radiation-related illnesses.

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The Nuclear Arms Race

Chernobyl HBO

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8 July 1996

17 February 1958

24 January 1946

UK disarmament campaign formed

The Chernobyl Disaster 1986

World Court says nuclear weapons illegal

UN calls for elimination of atomic weapons

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK holds its first meeting. Its iconic emblem becomes one of the most widely recognized symbols in the world.

• Calls for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons
• Sets up a commission (paid plan) to deal with the problem of the atomic discovery.

• China, France, the UK, Russia and the US all sign the treaty
• India says it will not sign the treaty.

'N' and 'D' in Flag semaphore, which is the telegraphy system conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles, or occasionally bare or gloved hands. Information is encoded by the position of the flags; it is read when the flag is in a fixed position.

9 July 1955

Russell–Einstein manifesto issued

The growing North Korean nuclear threat, explained...

Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and other leading scientists issue a manifesto warning of the dangers of nuclear war and urging all governments to resolve disputes peacefully.

Chernobyl Clean Up

What would happen in North Korea launched a Nuclear Weapon

5 August 1963

Why was this important?

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a small but significant step toward the control of nuclear weapons. In the years to come, discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union grew to include limits on many nuclear weapons and the elimination of others.

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty opens for signature

1 July 1968

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is signed

• A treaty banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere, outer space and under water
• signed in Moscow
• USSR, US, and UK signed it

Countries with no nuclear-weapons must agree never to acquire them

Countries with nuclear-weapons must make a legal undertaking to disarm.

Out of the 5 countries that had nukes, only China & France didn't sign. -US, UK, and USSR did.

Weapons in Other Countries

Movements for Peace

The Cold War: Arms Race