![]() ![]() October 1962 Cuban missile crisis – a month-long confrontation between the US and Soviet Union, which many believe to be the closes the world has come to a nuclear war.ĭecember 1962 UK government announces purchase of Polaris missile from the US. March 1961 The first US nuclear submarine arrives at Holy Loch, in Scotland.Įaster 1962 100,000 attend rally at the end of an Aldermaston march. ![]() The decade sees a massive increase in political protests across the world.įebruary 1960 France conducts its first nuclear test in Algeria. The Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of a nuclear war, but in more positive news the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (in which the nuclear powers promise to bring about complete nuclear disarmament and non-nuclear powers agree not to acquire the weapon) is agreed. October 1957 Major fire at the Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear site in Cumbria results in radioactive discharges.įebruary 1958 US supplies Thor atomic missiles to the UK.Įaster 1958 The first march to Aldermaston (where Britain’s nuclear bombs are made) takes place.įrance and China become nuclear powers. September 1957 The United States conducts its first underground nuclear test. May 1957 First British hydrogen bomb test in Australia. May 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organisation (Warsaw Pact) is formed.Īpril 1956 The Soviet Union announces it has a hydrogen bomb. March 1954 A Japanese fishing boat, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, is exposed to radioactive fallout from an American hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific one crew member later dies as a result of exposure to radiation. January 1954 The world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched. October 1952 First British atomic bomb test off the coast of Australia. March 1950 The World Peace Council publishes the Stockholm Appeal calling for an absolute ban on nuclear weapons. This decade sees the UK first testing an atomic bomb and the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.ġ949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is formed. July 1945 The United States conducts the world’s first atomic bomb test, called ‘Trinity’, at Alamogordo, New Mexico.Īugust 1945 The United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Īugust 1949 The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb in 1949. ![]() The Second World War ends, as we see the beginning of the Cold War. The new weapons are used on Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. The US’ Manhattan Project builds and tests the first atomic bombs. Let’s hope an end date can be added soon.
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