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Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Development

Britain's Nuclear Deterrent Development

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On 16 July 1945, with the support of Britain, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic weapon. In August ...
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On 3 October 1952, Britain detonated their first atomic bomb.  Due to the small size and high-density populat...
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January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
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Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...
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The Potsdam Conference was held near Berlin on 17 July 1945, the day after the Trinity test, and was to run until 2 A...
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On 8 May 1945, Winston Churchill announced German armed forces had surrendered unconditionally. But, the World War ha...
B Reactor, Hanford, Washington
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and is among those who are credited with being the &#...
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On 2 August 1939, the US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, received a letter written by Leó Szilárd, a Hungarian-Germ...
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, early 20th century.
The discovery of the neutron and its properties is central to the extraordinary developments that lead to the first a...