History Thread for “atomic”

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January 29, 2016 Breaking

Arthur Rathburn and Tel Aviv

Grosse Pointe Park · Michigan · United States

Arthur Rathburn was the owner and operator of International Biological, Inc. (IBI), a Michigan company that supplied human cadavers and anatomical specimens for medical and dental trainin...

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June 19, 1953 Wars & Conflicts

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage

Sing Sing Prison · Ossining · New York · United States

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage On June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, after being convicted of...

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December 31, 1913 Breaking

Major Global Events of 1913

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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

6 August 1945 — An American B-29 drops the uranium bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima. The explosion and fire destroy much of the city and kill tens of thousands of people immediately, with man...

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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

9 August 1945 — The United States drops the plutonium bomb Fat Man on Nagasaki. Tens of thousands are killed immediately or in the following months. The attack occurs on the same day Sovi...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

U.S. president whose administration responded to warnings about atomic weapons and eventually authorized the massive wartime development program.

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Harry S. Truman

U.S. president after Roosevelt's death. Truman inherited the Manhattan Project and authorized the wartime use of atomic bombs against Japan.

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Henry L. Stimson

31 May 1945 — Secretary of War Henry Stimson chairs the first major meeting of the Interim Committee considering policy surrounding the atomic bomb. Stimson becomes one of the most import...

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Hirohito Announces Japan's Surrender

15 August 1945 — Emperor Hirohito's recorded voice is broadcast to the Japanese population announcing acceptance of Allied surrender terms. The decision follows intense disagreement withi...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Physicist selected by Groves to direct the Los Alamos laboratory, where scientists designed and assembled the atomic weapons.

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Lavrentiy Beria

22 June 1941 — Beria heads major Soviet security institutions during the war. His apparatus oversees internal repression, intelligence, population transfers and elements of economic mobil...

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Soviet Union Enters the War Against Japan

9 August 1945 — Soviet forces launch a massive offensive against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. The attack follows Soviet commitments made to the Western Allies and destroys Jap...

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Trinity Nuclear Test

16 July 1945 — The United States detonates the world's first nuclear device at the Trinity test site in New Mexico. The successful plutonium implosion test proves that the Manhattan Proje...

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