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Weapon

  • 5 Apr 2009

    North Korea performed a controversial intercontinental ballistic missile test.

  • 24 May 2002

    The United States and Russia signed the Moscow Treaty, agreeing to limit their nuclear arsenals.

  • 29 Jan 1996

    French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.

  • 12 Jun 1982

    Nearly one million people protested for the disarmament of nuclear weapons in Central Park, New York City.

  • 22 Sep 1979

    An unidentified double flash of light was detected over the Indian Ocean south of Africa.

  • 6 Jun 1977

    The US started plans to construct its first nuclear battlefield weapon.

  • 18 May 1974

    India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.

  • 6 Nov 1971

    The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.

  • 17 Jun 1967

    China performed its first thermonuclear test.

  • 27 Jan 1967

    The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.

  • 13 Feb 1960

    France became the fourth nuclear-capable nation following its successful Gerboise Bleue atomic test.

  • 9 Feb 1959

    The Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first Intercontinental ballistic missile, became operational.

  • 28 Nov 1958

    The US SM-65 Atlas missile completed the first successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch.

  • 5 Feb 1958

    A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.

  • 13 Jan 1958

    Nine thousand scientists from 43 nations signed a petition to ban nuclear testing.

  • 28 Jun 1956

    The first private research atomic reactor opened in Chicago, Illinois, US.

  • 26 Mar 1954

    The US tested the TX-17 thermonuclear bomb for the first time in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands.

  • 25 May 1953

    The United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test at the Nevada Test Site.

  • 7 Jan 1953

    President Truman announced to the people of America that they successfully developed a hydrogen bomb.

  • 26 Feb 1952

    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill went public that Britain had its first atomic bomb and planned to test it in Australia by the end of the year.

  • 1 Feb 1951

    An atomic bomb explosion was aired on TV for the first time.

  • 27 Jan 1951

    The first of 126 nuclear tests started at the Nevada Test Site.

  • 12 Feb 1950

    Albert Einstein warned against hydrogen bombs on the ''Today with Mrs. Roosevelt" weekly TV show.

  • 6 Jul 1947

    The Soviet Union started mass producing the AK-47 assault rifle.

  • 7 Mar 1946

    Citizens of Bikini Island evacuated for nuclear testing.

  • 16 Jul 1945

    The world's first atomic bomb was detonated.

  • 22 Dec 1942

    Adolf Hitler signed the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon during World War II.

  • 11 Oct 1939

    US President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein detailing the possibility of atomic weapons.

  • 7 Jun 1912

    Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.

  • 2 Sep 1898

    Machine guns were used for the first time in a battle in Omdurman, Sudan, Africa.

  • 8 Aug 1854

    Smith and Wesson patented the first metal bullet cartridges.

  • 25 Feb 1836

    Samuel Colt patented the multi-shot revolving cylinder gun.