On the 12th April 1945, Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States when his predecessor, Franklin D Roosevelt, suddenly died while having his portrait painted.
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.
On the 24th December 1955, the Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command first began giving children the current location of Santa as he made his way across the world delivering presents.
When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
On the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
The bikini swimsuit was introduced for the first time, four days after an atomic test at the Bikini Atoll.
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