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Reagan administration proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). SDI is a system using space-based and ground-based defenses to protect the United States from strategic ballistic missiles.
USSR detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever. The Tsar Bomba is equivalent to 58 Megatons (58,000,000 tons) or 1400 times the explosive power of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki COMBINED. However, it is relatively the cleanest nuclear weapon ever, recording incredibly low nuclear fallout.
The first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) begins in Helsinki, Finland. Unfortunately, the United States never ratified the agreement as they refused under the pretense of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
The Soviet Union is dissolved.
England joins the ‘nuclear club’ upon obtaining nuclear weapons after considerable cooperation with the Americans.
The USSR tests its first atomic weapon at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The test ends the American nuclear weapon monopoly.
The USSR tests its first true hydrogen bomb, RDS- 37.
SALT II is signed by the United States under Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev. However, it is later withdrawn by the Reagan administration.
The Manhattan Project is developed and put under control of the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development power would later be distributed to the United States War Department. The project is aimed at creating the first atomic weapon.
USA, the Soviet Union and Great Britain sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, preventing the testing of nuclear weapons in space, underwater or in the atmosphere. It is the first treaty, accepted by the Soviet Union, which promotes the control of nuclear weapons.
U.S. representative to the United Nations Bernard Baruch, presents the Baruch plan to the United Nations. The plan is aimed to establish an, ‘International Development Authority,’ in hopes to control future nuclear proliferation. The plan is rejected by both Stalin and Truman.
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed. Under the treaty non-nuclear weapon states agree to never acquire nuclear weapons; also, nations possessing nuclear weapons will make a legal attempt at dismantling their nuclear arsenals. USA, USSR, Great Britain, France and China all sign.
China tests its first nuclear weapon at Lop Nur and becomes the fifth country to possess nuclear weapon capabilities.
The atomic bomb, Little Boy, is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The detonation causes a total of 135,000 casualties, and destroys 69% of infrastructure within the city.
The atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The detonation of Fat Man is equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT and causes an estimated 64,000 casualties. The explosion in Nagasaki ultimately ends WWII.
16th July 1945
The first atomic weapon is tested in the Jornada Del Muerto desert, New Mexico. Code named ‘Trinity’ the detonation is equivalent to that of 20 kilotons (20,000) of TNT.
Israel is revealed to have Nuclear weapons.
France detonates its first nuclear weapon and becomes the fourth nation to gain nuclear weapon capabilities.
India conducts first nuclear test, codenamed ‘Smiling Buddha’.
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. The crisis resulted in a standoff, heightened nuclear tensions and the first direct conflict between the USA and the USSR over nuclear supremacy. However, on October 29th 1962, the USSR backs down and removes the missiles they had deposited in Cuba, a total of around 160.
USA tests the first hydrogen bomb at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The weapon is the first hydrogen fusion weapon. This type of weapon would become known as the, “Super Bomb”.
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