Living With The Bomb
‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ -Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita by J. Robert Oppenheimer, considered the father of the atomic bomb, when reflecting upon the first nuclear test in 1945.
Living With The Bomb is a timeline exploring nuclear proliferation, nuclear disarmament, and peoples movements for the abolition of nuclear weapons.;xNLx;;xNLx;This project is currently under construction.
1945-07-16 05:29:45
The Trinity Test
The Beginning of the Atomic Age.
1945-08-06 08:15:00
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Roughly 70,000–80,000 people were killed instantly by the blast and resultant firestorm. Another 70,000 were injured.
1945-08-09 11:01:00
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
Immediate deaths range from 40,000 to 75,000. Total deaths by the end of 1945 may have reached 80,000.
1946-07-01 00:00:00
Operation Crossroads
United States nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Bikini Atoll.
1949-08-29 00:00:00
RDS-1
The Soviet Union's first nuclear weapons test.
1951-01-27 00:00:00
Operation Ranger
Tests centered on the practicality of developing a second generation of nuclear weapons using smaller amounts of valuable nuclear materials.
1951-04-08 00:00:00
Operation Greenhouse
The first to test principles that would lead to developing thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs).
1951-10-22 00:00:00
Operation Buster-Jangle
Buster-Jangle was the first joint test program between the DOD and Los Alamos National Laboratories. 6,500 troops were involved in the Desert Rock I, II, and III exercises in conjunction with the tests.
1952-04-01 00:00:00
Operation Tumbler-Snapper
1952-10-05 00:00:00
Operation Hurricane
The first British atomic weapons test on October 3,1952.
1952-11-01 00:00:00
Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear weapons tests.
1953-03-17 00:00:00
Operation Upshot-Knothole
Operation Upshot-Knothole was a series of eleven U.S. nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site.
1953-08-12 00:00:00
RDS-6s
The first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon on August 12, 1953.
1954-03-01 00:00:00
Operation Castle
Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States, and the most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954-11-03 00:00:00
Godzilla
The radioactive monster!
1955-08-06 00:00:00
World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
Opened in Hiroshima on August 6, 1955.
1955-09-19 00:00:00
Japan Gensuikyo
Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
1955-11-22 00:00:00
RDS-37
The Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb.
1957-05-15 00:00:00
Operation Grapple
Operation Grapple was the name of a series of British hydrogen bomb tests from May of 1957 through September of 1958.
1957-11-15 00:00:00
The National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy New York Times Ad
We are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed.
1958-02-17 00:00:00
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Inaugural Public Meeting
The first public meeting of the CND.
1960-02-13 00:00:00
Gerboise Bleue
Gerboise Bleue was the name of the first French nuclear test.
1960-05-19 00:00:00
The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy NYC Rally
20,000 rally in Madison Square Garden to the arms race.
1961-10-30 00:00:00
Tsar Bomba
The most powerful artificial explosion in human history.
1961-11-01 00:00:00
Women Strike for Peace
The largest national women's peace protest in the 20th century.
1962-10-14 00:00:00
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation in which the world came closest to a nuclear war.
1963-10-10 00:00:00
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water
1964-01-29 00:00:00
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
1964-09-07 00:00:00
Lyndon B. Johnson's "Daisy Girl" political ad
One of the most controversial political advertisements ever made.
1964-10-07 00:00:00
Fail Safe
"Fail Safe Will Have You Sitting On The Brink Of Eternity!"
1964-10-16 00:00:00
596
China's first nuclear weapons test.
1967-02-14 00:00:00
TREATY OF TLATELOLCO
The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.
1967-06-17 00:00:00
Test No. 6
China's first test of a three-staged thermonuclear device.
1968-08-24 00:00:00
Canopus
Canopus was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test.
1970-03-05 00:00:00
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Entered into force: 5 March 1970.
1972-05-18 00:00:00
Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof
Entered into force: 18 May 1972
1974-05-18 00:00:00
Smiling Buddha
Smiling Buddha was an assigned codename of the first nuclear weapon explosion by India on May 18,1974.
1976-01-01 00:00:00
Bruce Conner - Crossroads
1976, no release date.
1979-12-12 00:00:00
The Euromissiles Crisis
The modernization of the arms race, and renewed popular resistance to the bomb.
1980-04-28 00:00:00
European Nuclear Disarmament (END)
1980-09-09 00:00:00
Plowshares Eight Action
The first action that began the Plowshares movement of international anti-nuclear civil disobedience.
1981-03-20 00:00:00
First Conference of the Nuclear Freeze Campaign
"The Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race."
1981-03-26 00:00:00
Food Not Bombs First Action
The first Food Not Bombs “Soup Line”.
1982-04-18 00:00:00
Ground Zero Week
Non-partisan community based education, discussions, and events on the issue of nuclear war.
1982-06-12 00:00:00
The March for Disarmament
The largest political demonstration in American history.
1982-06-19 00:00:00
Hans Haacke in Documenta 7
"Reagan get lost - Neither NATO nor Warsaw."
1982-10-14 00:00:00
Litton Industries Bombing
Bombing of Litton Industries, a company producing guidance components for the controversial American cruise missiles.
1983-05-07 00:00:00
War Games
1983-06-20 00:00:00
International Day of Nuclear Disarmament
1983-11-20 00:00:00
The Day After (television film)
How Will It Affect Children? (From the cover of Newsweek, November 21, 1983)