http://www.atomicarchive.com/ atomicarchive.com explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. en-us http://backend.userland.com/rss webmaster@atomicarchive.com (Chris Griffith) webmaster@atomicarchive.com (Chris Griffith) http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Begin/MAUD.shtml MAUD committee and set up by the British in the spring of 1940 to study the possibility of developing a nuclear weapon, maintained that a sufficiently purified critical mass of uranium-235 could fission even with fast neutrons. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01 http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/trinity/index.shtml On July 16, 1945 the world changed with the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Trinity Site is where the first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01 http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Storax.html#Sedan Project Plowshare, begun in 1958, sought to develop peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. These tests were designed to show that nuclear devices could quickly and cheaply move massive amounts of earth in the digging of canals and harbors. The Sedan test, July 6, 1962, was part of this program. The 104 kiloton thermonuclear device was buried 635 feet below ground level. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01 http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/LANL/Dominic.shtml#Fishbowl STARFISH PRIME, was one of the high-altitude nuclear tests in the Operation Fishbowl series conducted in the Pacific Proving Ground in 1962. It was launched in the Johnston Island area to an altitude of about 400 kilometers by a Thor rocket and had a yield of 1.4 megatons. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01 http://www.atomicarchive.com/Treaties/Treaty6.shtml he United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed the treaty, which limits the spread of military nuclear technology by the recognized nuclear-weapon states - U.S., U.S.S.R., U.K., France and China - to non-nuclear nations wishing to build or acquire atomic weapons. Non-weapon states agree not to get nuclear arms and countries with nuclear weapons will negotiate for disarmament. It said countries without nuclear weapons will allow the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency to oversee their nuclear facilities. Countries also should exchange peaceful nuclear technology. It has since been signed by 187 countries and was extended indefinitely in May 1995. India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba are the only countries that haven't signed on. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01 http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/071197text.html#anchor1594311 The U.S. reports that the light signals recorded over the South Atlantic on September 22, 1979 were probably not from a nuclear explosion. However, it has since been learned that this event was a nuclear test conducted by the South Africans. Chris Griffith 2009-07-01