When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
Nuclear war was avoided when Russian officer Stanislav Petrov rejected early warning system reports of incoming ballistic missiles as a false alarm.
‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.
The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini Atoll.
An American Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was lost off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia following an in-air collision.
Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a day.
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
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