Space race by Lawrence CHUNG [10N] https://padlet.com/lawrencechung1/2lfyhvc9jurozulh Made with the best of intentions en-us 2021-11-04 01:58:11 UTC 2025-12-09 11:57:50 UTC hello@padlet.com First atomic bombs lawrencechung1 https://padlet.com/lawrencechung1/2lfyhvc9jurozulh/wish/1866351762
  • July 16th 1945 the Manhattan project holds the first successful test of atomic device
  • US drops two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
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  • 29th August 1949 Soviet conducts first nuclear test code named RDS-1
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  • November 1st 1952, US successfully detonated the first hydrogen bomb in Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands
  • August 12th 1953 Soviet tests its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia
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  • The US presents the Baruch plan for international control of atomic weapons to UN
  • Baruch sided of those who feared the Soviets
  • Proposal provided for international control of atomic weapons by the US
  • USSR declined and so US declined their counter agreement of banning all atomic weapons
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  • 1954 to 1957, Soviet rocket designer Sergei Korolev headed development of the R-7
  • Worlds first ICBM
  • Successfully flight tested in August 1957
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  • Worlds first artificial earth satellite 
  • Was launched by the Soviets 
  • Launched October 4th 1957
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  • A converted Project 611 (Zulu-IV class) submarine launched the world's first SLBM
  • an R-11FM (SS-N-1 Scud-A (naval variant of the SS-1 Scud) 
  • on 16 September 1955


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  • Castro leadership allowed Soviet to deploy atomic weapons facing US
  • US replies with high tensions and possibility of nuclear warfare
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  • Banned testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, underwater and outer space
  • Problem was atmospheric radioactive fallout
  • Signed August 5th 1963
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  • international treaty with objective to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
  • Signed 1 July 1968
  • Effective on 5 March 1970
  • Was signed in Moscow
  • Some countries didn't sign it and continued to be in possession of nuclear arms
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  • The ABM treaty regulated antiballistic missiles that could theoretically be used to destroy incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
  • ratified by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 1972
  • froze each side’s number of ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles
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  • SALT II negotiations opened late in 1972
  • Continued for 7 years
  • set limits on the number of strategic launchers
  • overall limit of about 2,400 of all such weapons systems for each side
  • signed by Pres. Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev in Vienna on June 18, 1979
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  • began in 1982, spanned a period of three eventful decades
  • proposed radical reductions, rather than merely limitations
  • ratified without difficulty in the U.S. Senate, but in December 1991 the Soviet Union broke up

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  • Nicknamed star wars
  • SDI was a system armed with an array of space-based X-ray lasers would detect and deflect any nukes headed toward the United States
  • Gov spent 30 billion over 10 years but ultiamtely failed
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  • 1968 incident at Chernobyl power station
  • Technicians at reactor unit 4 attempted poorly designed experiment
  • Chain explosions and radioactive substance poured out

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  • 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear weapons
  • US and USSR destroyed a total of 2,692 short, medium, and intermediate-range missiles
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  • Treaty between US and USSR
  • Signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994
  • First treaty aimed to reduce strategic nuclear weapons
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