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  2. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

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    At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! ... The test was successful beyond the most optimistic expectations of anyone. [150]

  3. History of nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

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    India's first atomic-test explosion was in 1974 with Smiling Buddha, which it described as a "peaceful nuclear explosion." After the collapse of Eastern Military High Command and the disintegration of Pakistan as a result of the 1971 Winter war, Pakistan's Bhutto launched scientific research on nuclear weapons.

  4. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    For nuclear weapon tests, a salvo is defined as two or more underground nuclear explosions conducted at a test site within an area delineated by a circle having a diameter of two kilometers and conducted within a total period of time of 0.1 second. [2] The two nuclear bombs dropped in combat over Japan in 1945.

  5. List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia

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    The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania was caused by a series of failures in secondary systems at the reactor, which allowed radioactive steam to escape and resulted in the partial core meltdown of one of two reactors at the site, making it the most significant accident in U.S. history. [8] The world's worst nuclear accident has ...

  6. How a small reactor in Eastern WA became the world’s first ...

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    Hanford’s B Reactor supplied the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb and launched the Atomic Age.

  7. Leipzig L-IV experiment accident - Wikipedia

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    The Leipzig L-IV experiment accident was the first nuclear accident in history. It occurred on 23 June 1942 in a laboratory at the Physical Institute of the Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany. There was a steam explosion and a reactor fire in the "uranium machine", a primitive form of research reactor. [1]

  8. Today in History: Nevada is site of first-ever underground ...

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    On this day in 1957, the first underground nuclear test was carried out at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375 square-mile research center located 65 miles away from Las Vegas.The 1,7 kiloton nuclear ...

  9. Nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device.