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Radio 4 airs a special programme from BBC Radio News which is also carried on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 5 Live. [17] 6 September – Live coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana is broadcast on all of the BBC national radio networks, as well as on all BBC Local and National radio stations. 1998
[1] and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [2] The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the Second World War. [3] At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, it was merged with the American Manhattan Project. [4]
On September 24, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched from Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia. [98] 1961. On January 3, the Army Nuclear Power Program's SL-1 experiences a prompt critical accident, killing three workers, the first and only fatal nuclear power accident in the United States. [65]
1949 – August 29 – The Soviet Union conducts its first atomic test, RDS-1 (nicknamed Joe 1 by the Americans). [19] 1949 – September 3 – U.S. atmospheric monitoring flights begin detecting effects of the Soviet test. [19] 1949 – September 23 – President Truman announces that the Soviets have conducted an atomic test. [19]
July – Radio 3 hires Andy Kershaw to host a world music programme, as Andy himself joins the station. [22] two months after BBC Radio 1 axed his world music show. [23] Rob Cowan joins. 2001. Radio 3, along with other BBC Radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. No events. 2003. No events. 2004. No events. 2005
CONELRAD radio information systems were adopted, whereby the commercial radio sector (later supplemented by the National Emergency Alarm Repeaters) would broadcast on two AM radio frequencies in the event of a Civil Defense (CD) emergency. These two frequencies, 640 and 1240 kHz, were marked with small CD triangles on the tuning dial of radios ...
The exercise simulated a Soviet conventional attack on European NATO forces 3 days before the start of the exercise (D-3), transitioning to a large scale chemical war (D-1) and on day 1 (D+1) of the exercise, NATO forces sought political guidance on the use of nuclear weapons to stem the Soviet advance which was approved by political leaders.
The reactor's development was part of the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to create atomic bombs during World War II. It led to the building of larger single-purpose production reactors, such as the X-10 Pile, for the production of weapons-grade plutonium for use in the first nuclear weapons.