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January: Niels Bohr and John A. Wheeler apply the liquid drop model developed by Bohr and Fritz Kalckar to explain the mechanism of nuclear fission. Bohr hypothesises that uranium-235 is largely responsible. [33] 3 September: Great Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany in response to its invasion of Poland, beginning World War II in ...
1914 – H.G. Wells writes The World Set Free, a science fiction novel postulating a world war in 1956 pitting the United Kingdom and France against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Inspired by the research of Rutherford, Sir William Ramsay , and Frederick Soddy , the novel predicts the development of atomic weapons, and features a "carolinum ...
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
It is a 100 cm (39 in) accelerator capable of achieving 3.2 MeV proton energies. [12] [13] On April 3, Yoshio Nishina, Tameichi Yasaki, and Sukeo Watanabe complete the first cyclotron in Japan and in Asia, at the Riken laboratory in Tokyo. It is a 26-inch accelerator capable of achieving 2.9 MeV deuteron energies. [14] [15] 1938
Mar. 16—The Manhattan Project in New Mexico was front and center in 1945. In nanoseconds, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II changed the nature of warfare ...
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.
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted atomic raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945.
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