November 3rd, 1957
Laika, first animal in space
- Sputnik 2 launched
- Spent 162 says in orbit
- Launched with dog named Laika
- First being in space
- Yuri Gagarin
- Russian
- Launched into orbit from Vostok 3KA-3
- Orbit around earth lasted 108 minutes
Biggest bomb ever detonated
- Soviets test the Tsar Bomba
- Hydrogen bomb of 50 megatons
- 1,570 times more powerful than bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
"First Lightning"
1949
First Soviet Test
- August 29th, 1949
- "First Lightning"
- 20 kilotons, equal to Trinity
- Klaus Fuchs
- US began hydrogen bomb research
Aerial photos taken of Cuban missile base
- Soviet missile build up in Cuba
- when tensions were highest in Cold War
- Created blockade to stop additional weapons and to send back weapons there already
1945
First civilian bombings
- August 6th, Hiroshima
- Uranium gun-type, "Little Boy
- August 9th, Nagasaki
- Plutonium implosion-type, "Fat Man
- Killed 129,000 civilians
- First and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare
Nuclear Arms Race Timeline
1945
First successful test
- Jornada Del Muerto Desert
- "Trinity Site"
- First atomic bomb, "Gadget"
- Tested on July 16th, 1945
- Started atomic age
- Limited test Ban Treaty
- Signed at Moscow on August 5th, 1963
- Enforced October 10th, 1963
- Didn't not allow tests in atmosphere, in space or underwater
- Wanted to limit radiation and its damage to the environment
Llewellyn E. Thompson signs treaty
- NPT signed (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)
- Pledged cooperation to stemming the spread of nuclear technology
October 1957
Chinese celebrate success of first test
- Joined atom bomb club with successful test
- Had been researching into one since 1950's
- October 4th, 1957
- Soviet Union launches first artificial satellite
- Named "Sputnik"
- Circled Earth once every 96 minutes
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin piloted Apollo 11 to the Moon
- First humans and Americans on the Moon
Castle Bravo Mushroom Cloud
1954
Castle Bravo
- March 1st, 1954
- First US dry fuel hydrogen bomb
- 15 megatons
- Marshall Islands